The Port System Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea announced that in the whole of 2025 the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado Ligure handled a total of 62,922,508 tons of given that the Authority shows a slight contraction compared to 2024 (-0.8%) and that, unless a more recent and new count of the volumes of loads handled in 2024, results however, be down by -2.4% compared to the figure of 64,493,696 tonnes relating to the whole of 2024 communicated so far by the Authority and in decrease of -1.3% compared to the 63,761,375 tons handled in 2024 according to what was communicated by the Port Authority to Assoporti.

What seems to be established is the new record of containerized traffic handled in 2025 that the Port Authority has announced to be equal to 2,999,486 TEUs, with a growth of +6.3%, of which 2,451,695 TEUs in import-export (+2.0%) - including 1,919,700 Full TEUs (+4.8%) - and 547,790 TEUs in transhipment (+31.5%). The institution specified that in Savona-Vado Ligure traffic is was equal to a record of about 590 thousand TEUs (+58.4%), with a transhipment component is widely prevalent, while the port of Genoa handled 2.4 million TEUs, recording a slight increase in decrease of -1.6% mainly attributable - he explained the entity - to the reduction of transhipment volumes in the face of a substantial resilience of gateway traffic.

Last year, dry bulk traffic was of 2,457,728 tons, with an increase of +2.3% driven by from the increase of +24.3% recorded in the fourth quarter alone. The Port Authority specified that growth affected both airports: the the port of Genoa handled 713,321 tons (+3.8%), while Savona closed the year with 1,744,407 tons (+1.6%). In the detail of the product categories, the Authority reported the recovery of coal traffic, especially in the port of Genoa (+17.4%), as well as the growth of other dry bulk (+29.8%), driven in particular by the demand for metallurgical products.

With regard to conventional goods, the Ligurian port authority reported that it settled in 2025 on a total of 12.99 million tonnes, with a slight decrease of -3.3% on annual basis, which would however be -10.5% compared to the total of more than 14.5 million tonnes of conventional goods in 2024 so far announced by the institution. The Port Authority has specified that, within the sector, the rolling stock segment and cars show an overall improvement in the last part of the year, the handling of steels and metal materials recorded a growth of 1.3%, driven by the port of Genoa, while forest products show a particularly dynamic closing 2025 with an increase of +30%.

In 2025, liquid bulk cargo was Around 18 million tonnes of energy products handled (-1.9%) and about 930 thousand tons of liquid bulk cargo, with a increase of +4.7% driven in particular by liquid bulk food (+39%).

Last year, passenger traffic in the two ports 5.0 million people (+0.6%), of which more than 2.4 million cruise passengers (+6.1%) and over 2.6 million ferry passengers (-4,0%).