Positive results also in the first nine months of 2022 for the ports of Rome and Lazio. In general, from the traffic data as at 30 September, as regards the overall data of the network of the three Lazio ports, there is a freight traffic equal to 11,288,341 tons with a growth of 15.9% compared to the first nine months of 2021 and by 1.5% also compared to the first nine months of 2019, before the explosion of the pandemic from Covid 19. Specifically, among the various types, the liquid goods of the Lazio network close the first nine months of the year with a + 23.8% compared to 2021, while solid goods with a + 12.6%. Civitavecchia records an increase in freight traffic of 10.7% on 2021 (it is 7,853,108 tons, up by 8.7% also compared to the first nine months of 2019, when it recorded 7,170,196 tons), Gaeta it grew by 6.8%, while the port of Fiumicino, with the resumption of the movement of petroleum products serving the nearby “Leonardo Da Vinci” international airport, closed the first half of the year with a + 50.3%. As regards Civitavecchia, there was a significant growth with reference to all product categories, with the exception of liquid bulk. The solid bulk, with a total of 2,312,963 tons, grew by 41.7% (+680,605 tons). These include the increase in coal (+ 38.5%; +488.771 tons), metallurgical products (+ 61%; +139.732), chemical products (+ 48.3%; 4.150) and “other bulk solid “(+ 53.5%; +57,398). In the category “goods in packages”, for which the increase compared to 2021 is equal to 2.6% (+125,869 tons), there is a growth of 2.7% (+112,074 tons for a total of 4,258,126 tons) of Ro / Ro traffic and 1.5% (+10,368 tons for a total of 700,871) of goods in containers. With reference to container traffic, 87,072 TEUs are recorded, with a significant increase of 21.6% (+15,450) compared to the same period of last year, with the “full” ones growing by 6.1% and the “empty” ones of the 69.1%. The recovery of scheduled passenger traffic also continues, registering an increase of 22% (+235,447) and a total of 1,303,653 passengers. Equally up, by 11.2% (+72,479), the “motor vehicles” category within which, in addition to the increase in the “passenger car” sub-category (+ 11.2%; +48,417), the recovery traffic of “cars covered by the policy” up by 11.3% (+7,772) for a total of 76,265 cars handled. The most significant numbers in terms of passenger traffic growth still concern the cruise sector which, moving a total of 1,656,252 cruise passengers in the first nine months of the year, recorded an increase of 450% and 1,355,102 cruise passengers in more than have passed through the port of Rome, exceeding, in fact, what were the forecasts for the whole of 2022. As regards the port of Gaeta, the most significant increases were recorded with reference to solid goods (+ 15.3% ; +68,586 tons), both “various goods in packages” and “bulk”. The former, with a total of 34,070 tons, recorded an increase of 31.7% (+8,208 tons), while among the latter there was an increase in “raw minerals, cements and limes” (+ 51%; + 96,474 tons). On the other hand, the sub-category of “coal” (-21.7%; -29,685 tons) and “metallurgical products” (-10.6%; -5,223 tons) were down. cautious optimism and we are aware that there is still a long way to go, but the traffic figures of these nine months, still growing, mean that the strategy of diversification of commercial traffic implemented for over a year is bearing concrete results “, Underlines the president of the AdSP of the Central Northern Tyrrhenian Sea, Pino Musolino.” We are working hard – he adds – and it is a team effort that includes the entire port cluster as well as the various institutional levels. Because this is the synergy necessary for open new development opportunities for Civitavecchia and for the ports of Lazio in general “.