In 2025, the port of La Spezia handled 12.62 million tons of goods, with an increase of +3.3% on the year determined by the increase in loads on landing, equal to 5.64 million tonnes, which more than offset the -4.0% decrease in those on boarding, which fell to 6.98 million tons. The Port System Authority of the Ligurian Sea Orientale also announced that the annual increase is was driven by the decisive recovery from liquid bulk at the landing which recorded a total of 1.52 million tonnes of energy products (+92.6%), of which 1.33 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (+97.5%) and 191 thousand of petroleum products refined (+64.0%). The increase offset the reduction of more than 300 thousand tons of the traffic of various goods, with the traffic of containers which, amounting to 1,217,461 TEUs, marked a decrease -1.7% due to the -12.4% reduction in volumes containerized containers (293,990 TEUs) handled in the fourth quarter alone of 2025 compared to the same period of the previous year.

The Port Authority also highlighted the consistency of the share of freight traffic handled in 2025 by rail, which is state of 3,143,987 tons of freight and 7,352 trains handled, a result that - underlined the Authority - confirms the positioning of the port of La Spezia at the top of the ranking of Italian ports even in a phase that sees a significant decline in the component intermodal rail at national level.

Last year the port of Marina di Carrara handled 4.83 million tons, traffic slightly down compared to 2024 which recorded an increase in dry bulk cargo to 657 thousand tons (-17.2%) and a decrease in miscellaneous goods with 4.17 million tons (-2.9%) of which 1.38 million cargoes containerized (+3.5%) for 106,054 TEUs handled (+2.7%), 2.13 million of rolling stock (+7.9%) and 652 thousand tons of other goods miscellaneous (-33.6%).

In 2025, cruise traffic in the two Ligurian ports set a new record of passengers in transit, touching the 760 thousand cruise passengers in total (+13.6%), of which 736 thousand disembarked in La Spezia (+16.8%).

Meanwhile, next Friday starting at 9.00 am at the Sala Pozzoli of Confindustria La Spezia will be held the event training course dedicated to "Customs Assessment and Litigation" organized by the Association of Customs of La Spezia (ASPEDO) and by the Territorial Council of Customs Agents of the Liguria. During the meeting, the volume "Customs Assessment and Litigation", in the presence of authors: Serena Pellegri ("The new geography of the customs controls"); Giorgia Orsi ("The appeals in customs matters to the Court of Justice of the European Union"); Gabriele Damascelli ("OLAF's activity and the use of of statistical values in customs assessment for the EU Court). In addition, Elvio La Tassa (head of the Planning and Planning Area) will speak. final balance - ADM Liguria Office 2 - "ADM assessment and simplifications... the point of balance") and Andrea Dolcino (Head of Legal and Litigation Area - ADM Office Liguria 2 - "New forms of taxpayer protection in the tax process").