Venezia-Chioggia – The ports of Venice and Chioggia, in the first nine months of 2025, recorded an overall positive trend, with a total handled volume equal to 19 million tonnes, over 407 thousand tonnes more than the same period in 2024.
This was announced by the Northern Adriatic Sea Port Authority in a note. Driving the growth is mainly the port of Venice, which reached 18,388,644 million tonnes (+2%, +364,335 tonnes), while Chioggia, albeit with more contained volumes, marked a 7.2% increase, reaching 638,338 thousand tonnes (+42,981 tonnes).
Solid bulk volumes are stable, reaching, despite the decline recorded in Chioggia, a total of over 5.7 million tonnes. In particular, Venice records a 111.3% growth in grains, stability in animal feed and oilseeds (for a volume of over 1,155,000 tonnes) and a positive sign of 20.6% (for a total of 1,667,898) in the minerals, cements and lime sector; a sector that drives up the overall performance of the port of Chioggia, which handled 239,238 tonnes.
The signals recorded in the third quarter of 2025 for containers were also very positive, a period in which 388,381 TEU were handled in Venice, equal to an increase of 9.8% (+34,806 TEU). Ro/Ro traffic is stable, settling at a total of 1,777,000 tonnes, almost entirely concentrated in Venice.
Year-on-year data – If the analysis is extended to the time frame October 2024–September 2025, compared with the period October 2023–September 2024, the picture confirms the positive trend. The overall volume of goods handled by the two ports rose to 25,325,084 tonnes, with a growth of 1,297,034 tonnes. Venice records 24,468,688 tonnes (+5.5%), while Chioggia, with 856,396 tonnes, grows by 2.5%.
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In this comparison, liquid bulks, the domain of Porto Marghera, are stable, with 7,016,161 tonnes, while the agribulk sector confirms its liveliness with 2,359,224 tonnes (+139.5% for grains and +13.8% for foodstuffs and feed in Venice). Very positive signals also for the minerals, cements and lime sector, which in Venice grows by 489,857 tonnes (+28.4%), settling at 2,213,877 tonnes, absorbing the slight decline in Chioggia (-4.3%) which nevertheless reaches 327,968 tonnes handled.
The container sector continues to grow, exceeding the threshold of five hundred thousand containers – 513,643 TEU (+9% on an annual basis) – entirely handled in Porto Marghera, while Ro/Ro traffic consolidates, nearing a total of 2,350,000 tonnes.
The analysis highlights a trend of constant growth, driven by key sectors such as cements and lime, agribulk products and containerized traffic. The solidity of these segments, combined with more contained increases in other areas, consolidates the role of the ports of Venice and Chioggia as strategic hubs for major industrial and commercial supply chains, both nationally and internationally.
