In this paper, a review of deep-sea liner shipping services to/from Northern Italian ports is performed.The first section focuses on the analysis of statistical data regarding Italian foreing trade: with special reference to incoming and outcoming freight volumes transported by sea. The Italian import and export volumes with the rest of the world, during the years 2000 – 2010, are reported; in particular the trade by sea between Italy and Asia, in the years 2000 – 2010, is analysed. The development of containerised traffic at Italian ports, which represents the vast majority of global non-bulk freight flows, is shown. The statistics analysed show that the effects of the economic crisis are still in force, and the overall Italian maritime trade decreased in 2009, the year following the onset of the crisis, and rose again in 2010. In the second part of the paper deep-sea services in the northern Italian port systems have been considered. The list of deep-sea services and the values of the total DWT (deadweight tonnage, in thousands of tons) of the containerships departed (in the period of analysis: January 2011) from the North-Western Italian multiport gateway system are reported. The list of deep-sea services and the values of total DWT at the North-Easter Italian multiport gateway system is considered. The routes of containerships departed from North-Western Italian ports and the routes of containerships departed from North-Eastern Italian ports (North Adriatic Italian ports), in January 2011, are shown. The performed survey shows clearly that the main international routes connect Italian ports to the Red Sea and East Asia as well as to US ports. Other routes which connect Italian ports to South America, to Africa and to Oceania are only minor routes. North-western ports have several deep-sea departures, whereas Adriatic ports still play a minor role; the majority of the containerships directed to the Adriatic Sea refer to the Short Sea Shipping network. But it must be pointed out that the economic development of Central and Eastern EU countries and the extension of the Trans-European Transport Network towards the East could contribute to add and/or shift towards the Adriatic Sea some deep-sea services.
The supply of deep-sea containerised shipping services in the northern italian port systems
LUPI, MARINO;FARINA, ALESSANDRO;
2011-01-01
Abstract
In this paper, a review of deep-sea liner shipping services to/from Northern Italian ports is performed.The first section focuses on the analysis of statistical data regarding Italian foreing trade: with special reference to incoming and outcoming freight volumes transported by sea. The Italian import and export volumes with the rest of the world, during the years 2000 – 2010, are reported; in particular the trade by sea between Italy and Asia, in the years 2000 – 2010, is analysed. The development of containerised traffic at Italian ports, which represents the vast majority of global non-bulk freight flows, is shown. The statistics analysed show that the effects of the economic crisis are still in force, and the overall Italian maritime trade decreased in 2009, the year following the onset of the crisis, and rose again in 2010. In the second part of the paper deep-sea services in the northern Italian port systems have been considered. The list of deep-sea services and the values of the total DWT (deadweight tonnage, in thousands of tons) of the containerships departed (in the period of analysis: January 2011) from the North-Western Italian multiport gateway system are reported. The list of deep-sea services and the values of total DWT at the North-Easter Italian multiport gateway system is considered. The routes of containerships departed from North-Western Italian ports and the routes of containerships departed from North-Eastern Italian ports (North Adriatic Italian ports), in January 2011, are shown. The performed survey shows clearly that the main international routes connect Italian ports to the Red Sea and East Asia as well as to US ports. Other routes which connect Italian ports to South America, to Africa and to Oceania are only minor routes. North-western ports have several deep-sea departures, whereas Adriatic ports still play a minor role; the majority of the containerships directed to the Adriatic Sea refer to the Short Sea Shipping network. But it must be pointed out that the economic development of Central and Eastern EU countries and the extension of the Trans-European Transport Network towards the East could contribute to add and/or shift towards the Adriatic Sea some deep-sea services.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
