MILAN, Jan 12 (Class Editori) — The effects of an eventual production blockade in China on international ports will not be seen, if any, until late February. “There is fear: if the situation remains the same, we will have weeks with lower numbers in all the ports of the world, not just Trieste,” Zeno D’Agostino, President of the Port of Trieste and the European Sea Ports Organization (ESPO), the highest representative body for ports on a continent scale, admitted regarding the production freeze in China due to Covid-19, on the sidelines of a meeting in Trieste.
Meanwhile, 2022 was a record-breaking year both on containers and ROROs. “A record on trains is also possible, although at the moment I do not have the figure yet,” D’Agostino added.
In the first 10 months of 2022, the port reports overall growth of +4.33%, with 47,479,335 tons of cargo compared to the same period last year.
Liquid bulk cargo was stable with 30,886,124 tons (+0.56%), while dry bulk cargo registered strong growth, with 567,013 tons moved (+22,85%). The sprint in the container sector represents a further confirmation of a trend marking its return to normalcy: 735,046 TEUs moved, a double-digit increase (+16.23) and a result that represents the Trieste port’s historical record for TEU transport, when compared to the same period in previous years.
The increase in containerized traffic was accompanied by the positive trend in the RORO sector, which reached 268,320 units transited (+7.01%), another historical record for traffic related to the Motorways of the Sea.
(Source:Class Editori)
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