In the third quarter of this year, the traffic of goods in the Croatian ports increased by +3.5% to 5.78 million tonnes compared to 5.59 million tonnes over the same period of 2022. The growth was generated by the increase in +0.3% of landed cargoes, which amounted to 4.19 million tonnes, which more than offset the -8.3% decline in those on board, fell to 1.59 million tons.

The largest volume of overall traffic, that of bulk liquid, recorded an increase of +4.8% having been equal to 2.75 million tonnes. Bulk cargo was also on the rise solid with 1.66 million tonnes (+4.0%), 956 thousand tons (+0.9%) and rolling stock with 89 thousand tons (+20.5%), while other cargoes decreased by -5.7% having totalled 318 thousand tons.

Container traffic counted in 20-foot containers (TEU) handled amounted to 115 thousand TEUs (+6.8%), of which 105 thousand handled from the port of Rijeka alone (+3.6%).

In the passenger sector, traffic was 18.3 million people (+0.9%), of which 592 thousand cruise passengers (+29.5%).

In the first nine months of 2023, Croatian ports handled 17.86 million tonnes of goods overall, a volume similar to the one handled in the corresponding period last year.