Liguria, exports grow twice as fast as national in first nine months 2025

Liguria's exports in the first nine months of 2025 grew about twice as fast as the national average and more than three times as fast as the North-West. In 2026, the region's GDP is expected to increase by 1% compared to the 0.8% estimated for Italia as a whole. This is what emerges from the 10th edition of the Liguria 2030 think tank, organised by The european house-Ambrosetti in Genoa. Among the territory's greatest potential but also critical issues are the infrastructures being developed, from which an estimated 8 billion is estimated to have an impact on regional GDP by 2030, although there are delays and knots to be unravelled.

"In 2026," said Teha CEO Valerio De Molli, "the Ligurian economy is expected to grow at a rate 25% higher than the national average, confirming the vitality of the entrepreneurial fabric. In the first nine months of 2025, exports in Liguria show a particularly sustained dynamic, with an increase of 6.6%, almost double the national average, at plus 3.6%, and more than three times that recorded in the Northwest, at plus 1.9%'. Among the main critical points are 'the ageing population, a system that does not know how to attract and retain young people and young families. Infrastructure also remains a critical point: there are many ongoing projects, with delays and problems'.

From the Ambrosetti analysis, Liguria appears to be a leading region in the blue economy, concentrating 10.9% of the sector's active enterprises, 13.8% of the added value generated, and 15.4% of total employment in the sector, at a regional level. The region's leading position also emerges from the number of containers handled by the port system, up 4.5% in the first nine months of 2025. "A figure that has surprised me positively is that of employment," De Molli added, "new jobs have been created and we estimate that Liguria will close 2025 with growth, certainly minimal but higher than both the Northwest and Italia.

The numbers, stressed the President of the Region, Marco Bucci, 'confirm that Liguria is on the right path. GDP is growing, the Blu economy is growing, and investments are growing, public ones are going ahead and private ones are increasing, also in relation to the construction of the new hospitals, which will obviously be 100% public once they are ready. The other important topic is artificial intelligence, with our candidature for the European gigafactory and the proposal for the Nuclear Agency. Not to mention that the blue economy and the diving centre in La Spezia are doing very well and these, together with tourism, are the pillars of our growth, which is also confirmed by the positive employment figures'.