Sardinian ports on the rise after the blackest year of the pandemic: the results of 2021 bring the eight airports closer to realignment with the pre-Covid period.
Passenger traffic is emblematic, registering + 38% compared to 2020, going from approximately 2 million and 965 thousand units in the previous year, to 4 million and 83 thousand in 2021.
Traffic on routes of less than 20 miles (Santa Teresa and Portovesme) is also in line, with a growth of 39% (from 492,000 to 684,000 and 500 units). Positive, but still below the results of 2019 (- 87%), the cruise market, which closed 2021 with more than 731% compared to 2020, going from just 6 thousand and 900 cruise passengers, to about 57 thousand and 400 in the last season. An encouraging figure, however, supported by a schedule of stopovers which, for 2022, brings the cruise industry closer to the definitive exit from the crisis.
Strong recovery also for the goods sector which, globally, closes 2021 with a plus 15 percent compared to the previous year (from just over 38 million and 362 thousand tons in 2020 to about 44 million and 136 thousand in the year just closed) . Realignment to the pre-Covid period almost reached which, compared to 2019, stands at minus 5 percent.
Positive signs - but there is still a lot to do - in the container sector.
"We close 2021 with decidedly encouraging percentages, which allow us to glimpse a definitive exit from the worst period of crisis - explains Massimo Deiana, president of the AdSP of the Sea of Sardinia - We are therefore ready, in this 2022, to regain the peak of the ascent and to watch to the future with greater optimism, aware of the fact that new and important challenges await us for the relaunch of key sectors, including the transhipment of containers, but also infrastructural planning and programming of passenger services that can give new life blood and competitiveness, at an international level, to all our 8 ports of competence ".
(Unioneonline / vl)
