In the first quarter of 2026, the port of Venice handled 5.96 million tons of goods, with a growth of +1.7% on the same period last year, held back by the reduction in the -9.0% volume of liquid bulk cargo down to 1.53 million tonnes, of which 1.28 million tonnes of products refined petroleum products (-2.8%), 215 thousand tons of refined petroleum products chemicals (-22.0%) and 33 thousand tons of other liquid cargoes (-61,7%).

Dry bulk increased by +7.2% to 1.94 million tons, including 590 thousand tons of products metallurgical sector (+1.2%), 532 thousand tons of minerals and materials to be construction (+14.7%), 347 thousand tons of feed, fodder and seeds oily (+6.5%), 226 thousand tons of cereals (+0.6%), 69 thousand tons tons of coal and lignite, traffic absent last year, 48 thousand tons of chemicals (-6.1%) and 128 thousand tons of other dry bulk cargo (-20.9%).

In the first quarter of this year, miscellaneous goods were equal to to 2.49 million tonnes (+5.3%), of which 1.40 million tonnes tons of goods in containers (+13.2%) totaled with a handling of containers equal to 131,351 TEUs (+5.7%), 582 thousand tons of rolling stock -1.5%) and 515 thousand tons of other goods miscellaneous (-5.2%).

In the cruise sector, quarterly traffic was 11 thousand passengers (+56.4%), of which almost 10 thousand at the disembarkation/embarkation (+45.1%).

In the first three months of 2026, the port of Chioggia, which as Venice falls under the jurisdiction of the System Authority Port of the Northern Adriatic Sea, handled 215 thousand tons of goods (-2.7%), of which 129 thousand tons of goods miscellaneous (+62.9%) and 86 thousand tons of dry bulk (-39.3%).