After the four quarters of 2022 of decline, in the first quarter This year's cargo traffic in Greece's ports is Grown again. The Hellenic Statistical Authority has made I note today that in the period January-March of 2023 were 34.56 million tons of cargo were handled, with a progression of +9.6% on the first quarter last year. The This year's quarterly figure also represents a slight increase of +0.2% on the first trimester of 2021 when the activity of the ports were affected by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, while is down by -10.5% on the first trimester of 2020 when the health crisis was just beginning and -9.4% on the first 2019 pre-pandemic year quarter. Overall growth of +9.6% regarding the first trimester of the 2022 has been generated both by the increase of +3.9% of the national traffic that is piled to 6,38 million tons both from the rise of +11.0% of the International traffic amounted to 28.17 million tons.

In the rolling stock sector alone, traffic was 1.87 million of means, with increments of +10.3% on the first trimester of the 2022 and respectively +58.3%, +20.3% and +10.3% compared to the former three months of the previous three years.

Passenger traffic totalled in the first quarter of 2023 in Greek ports reached pre-pandemic levels thanks to the increase in national traffic. In particular, in the first Three months of this year the total was 4.49 million passengers, with increments of +12.6%, +123.6%, +18.9% and +0.7% on first quarters of 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019, of which 4.31 million domestic traffic passengers (+16.4%, +127.7%, +18.5% and +1.0%) and 179 thousand passengers of international traffic (+18.9%, +55.9%, +30.3% and -5.8%).