While the global crisis effects still affected marine trafic in H1, last year drew to a close posting a 3.7 percent increase year on year to 9.86 million TEUs handled in Italy. In fact, in the first five months of 2010, the year-on-year variation was still negative by 3.8 percent, and only in the second half of the year did the market recover to an overall year-on-year increase for the whole year.
Italian ports containers handling jan-may 2011 |
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Gateway ports |
Containers handled (x 1,000 TEUs) |
Y-o-y variation (%) |
Market share (%) |
Genova |
758 |
+7 |
18.3 |
La Spezia |
538 |
+9 |
13 |
Livorno |
269 |
+4 |
6.5 |
Napoli |
224 |
+0.6 |
5.4 |
Venezia |
184 |
+22.9 |
4.4 |
Trieste |
137 |
+12.8 |
3.3 |
Ravenna |
92 |
+17 |
2.2 |
Salerno |
89 |
+6 |
2.2 |
Transhipment ports |
Containers handled (x 1,000 TEUs) |
Y-o-y variation (%) |
Market share (%) |
Gioia Tauro |
1,170 |
+6.1 |
28.3 |
Taranto |
275 |
+18.2 |
6.6 |
Cagliari |
253 |
-9.1 |
6.1 |
On the gateway ports' side, the biggest increases were recorded by Adriatic Sea ports, but the biggest market share is still held by ports in the Tyrrenian and Ligurian Seas.
According to Il Sole 24 Ore, following the global crisis transhipment ports reduced their market share from 55 percent in 2009 to 41 percent in the first five months of 2010.