The port of Ravenna, as anticipated last month by the Port System Authority of the Central Adriatic Sea Northern, closed the month of August 2026 with a sharp decline of freight traffic, which was 1.77 million tons, 20.5% less than in the same month of 2025. Since the beginning of 2020, the year of the pandemic, it is the sixth lowest monthly result and the worst month of August. If The percentage change is discounted by a comparison with an August 2025 very strong (+10.9% on 2024), however also compared to the average in the months of August from 2020 to 2025 the drop is -14.5%.

In August 2026, dry goods fell by -23.5% and liquid bulk cargo by -11.1%. Landings, which make up the more substantial than traffic, lost overall the -25.2%, while shipments grew by +19%.

The most marked difficulties concern two sectors. The agri-food sector with 241 thousand tons (-55%), with cereals collapsed by -73.6%, flours by -42.2% and animal oils and fats and vegetables by -84.6%, while only oilseeds held up (+3%). Metallurgical products with 282 thousand tons (-37.8%), with the main item, that of coils, fell by -36.7%. In the other compartments, if the building materials were found to be almost stable (-1.7%), with raw materials for ceramics in Sassuolo (343 thousand tons) to -2.3%, petroleum products grew by +9.5% and chemicals (+9.9%) and fertilizers (+5.2%). If the containers seem to be doing well, with 15,036 TEU (+9.8%), however the full ones grew by just +0.5% (11,469 TEUs), while empty ones increased by +56.4%, and the tons of containerized goods fell by -1.1%. Even the were reduced: trailers were 4,682 (-7.5%) and the goods on rolling stock 113 thousand tons (-8.5%).

Positive note for cruises with 86,437 passengers in August 2026 (+42.5%), of which 84,811 as home ports (+66.6%).

In the first eight months of 2026, the picture remained positive 18.4 million tons of goods having been handled, with +2.7% on the same period of last year.

The Port Authority has announced that, according to the first data of the system port information, the month of September 2026 closed around 2.1 million tons of goods handled, in down by about -9% on September 2025. Down in materials construction (-49.5%), oil (-15.8%), metallurgical (-6.5%), liquid chemicals (-9.3%), goods on trailers (-9.1%) and container transport (-8.9%). Agri-food products increased (+15% solids, liquids +13%) and fertilizers (+15.2%).