In 2023, cargo traffic in the port of Trieste is down -3.4% to 55.6 million tonnes compared to 57.6 million in the previous year, a decrease that originated in the first half of 2023 when it was recorded a -7.3% reduction in volumes handled compared to to the same period in 2022, while in the second quarter of 2022 Last year, traffic remained more or less stable (+0,5%).

Last year, liquid bulk alone, which accounted for 67% of the total volume of traffic handled in 2023, were equal to to 37.3 million tonnes (-1.4%). Miscellaneous goods, with 17.8 million tonnes, marked a decrease of -6.4%, with a container traffic alone, which amounted to 852,193 TEUs (-2.9%) and with ro-ro traffic of 298,570 units transited (-6.8%) out of a total number of vehicles that is 324,208 vehicles (-3.8%). The decline is more pronounced of dry bulk amounted to 444 thousand tons (-31.7%).

Last year, cruise ship passenger traffic was 469 thousand people (+7.1%).

In 2023, the port of Monfalcone, also managed by the Authority, will be of the Port System of the Eastern Adriatic Sea, handled 3.8 million tonnes of goods (-0.4%), of which 3.0 million tonnes of tons of solid bulk (-2.7%) and 818 thousand tons of cargo Miscellaneous (+9.4%). Commercial vehicles passing through the airport there were 109 thousand (+30.5%). Traffic bucks the trend cruise which, with 92 thousand passengers, recorded a decrease of (-3.7%).