“The picture outlined by the numbers of this 8th forum is more than comforting: it highlights a Ligurian economy in constant growth, a factor that directly affects employment, another key point for the development and future of our land. After the great post-Covid rebound, with Liguria’s GDP growing by 5.1% in 2022 (more than the national average) and a year and a half, 2023 and half of 2024, with regional growth aligned with the national average, in 2025 growth of 1.4% is expected, higher than the national average: a trend that confirms the state of health of the Ligurian economy. The employment rate reaches 72.2% in 2023, truly remarkable. The number of Neets, young people who neither study nor work, is decreasing. Tourism, innovation, technology, maritime economy, export are the sectors that drive the Liguria system, which confirms itself as the first Italian region for TEUs handled, incidence of maritime economy companies on the total, for berths and tourist landings, for incidence of employment and added value of the Blue Economy on the regional total and second for number of cruise passengers, with an export that, in 2023, set a new record, with a value of 10.7 billion euros”. This was stated by the interim president of the Liguria Region Alexander Plain on the sidelines of his speech at the eighth Ambrosetti Forum in Rapallo.
«It is essential to continue with the infrastructure – continued Piana – the port of Genoa in 2023 with 47.8 million tonnes is the second port nationally for goods handled after Trieste. At the same time, considering the Genoa Port System as a whole, with 62.9 million tonnes the latter is first in Italy. I would also like to underline that attention to businesses but also to the environment is growing. Environmental satisfaction among citizens in 2023 increased by 2.5 percentage points in the last year, going from 76% to 78.5% (first region in Italy) and the percentage of Ligurian citizens worried about the loss of biodiversity also decreased, a symptom that we are working adequately both to push the economic engine and to present our habitat.”
