Last September, the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado Ligure 5.16 million tons of goods handled, with a decrease of -2.7% on September 2025, of which 3.86 million tonnes in the port of the Ligurian capital (-3.4%) and 1.30 million in that Savona (-0.4%).

In the entire third quarter of 2026, the two ports handled 16.14 million tons, up +2.0% over the same period in 2025. Growth, +2.7% in Genoa and essentially nothing in Savona-Vado, reports the progressive January-September at 47.28 million tonnes, just below the 2025 (-0.6%) after a first half closed at -1.9%. Supporting the quarterly were containers (6.56 million tons, +2.9%, and 777,138 TEUs, +3.7%) and conventional traffic (3.60 million TEUs) tons, +4.2%), driven by rolling stock. Mineral oils are remained stable (4.90 million tonnes, +0.4%), while the dry bulk cargo, with 458 thousand tons, lost -4.2% and passengers (2.17 million) -4.3%.

The port of Genoa alone closed the third quarter of 2026 in 12.18 million tons (+2.7%). Containers reached 5.48 million tonnes (+2.4%) and 600,369 TEUs (+5.3%). The traffic of other miscellaneous goods (2.73 million tonnes) was growth of +5.5% thanks to rolling stock (2.19 million tons, +9.1%), while passenger vehicles fell by -7,4%. Dry bulk cargo rose by +29.8% to 130 thousand tons, with the return of coal and coke (58 thousand tons, absent in the third quarter of 2025). Mineral oils, according to port sector, reached 3.27 million tons (+0,8%). Other liquid bulk cargo fell by -8.4% to 206 thousand tons: chemicals did well (112 thousand tons, +2.8%), vegetable oils and wine (94 thousand tons, -18.9%). The function linked to the coils of Acciaierie d'Italia and therefore to the crisis of the Taranto plant, stopped at 136 thousand tons of dry bulk (-1.3%). The sharpest minus sign concerns passengers: 1.68 million (-8.5%), with ferries at 1.19 million (-9.0%) and cruises to 492 thousand (-7.2%).

In the July-September quarter of this year, the port of Savona-Vado Ligure handled 3.96 million tons as follows as in the third quarter of 2025. Behind stability there are are divergent dynamics. Containerized goods are growth of +5.7% in weight (1.07 million tons) but Decrease of -1.2% in TEUs (176,769), with an increase in the average load per container. In conventional traffic (877 thousand tons, +0.5%), rolling stock advanced by +6.7% to 727 thousand tons, while specialized traffic fell by -21.6% to 150 thousand tonnes: steel -41.0%, forest products -19.1%, fruit and vegetables -9,4%. Dry bulk cargo, the most important sector of the port after mineral oils, they lost -13.3% to 327 thousand tonnes (coal and coke -11.7%, cement and minerals -40.3%, other bulk -17.7%), with cereals and flours alone growing (66 thousand tons, +3.0%). Mineral oils remained substantially stable at 1.63 million tons (-0.3%), while oils increased by +11.4%. Passengers grew, with ferries at 304 thousand units (+20.2%) and cruises at 190 thousand (+3,8%).