Last year, South Korean ports handled 1.55 billion tonnes of goods, similar to that of 2022 and still below pre-Covid-19 pandemic levels having been handled in 2019 a record traffic of 1.64 billion tonnes. In 2023, port traffic alone of import/export amounted to 1.32 billion tonnes, increase of +1.0% on the previous year, while domestic traffic fell by -5.4% to €230.9 million. Tons.

Last year, container traffic alone was equal to an all-time record of over 30.1 million TEUs, with an increase in by +4.6% on 2022 and with an increase of about one million TEUs compared to the previous annual peak set in 2020. In the 2023 Import and export container traffic has increased more than 17.2 million TEUs (+4.8%), while containers transhipped at South Korean ports amounted to over 12.7 million TEUs (+4.8%).

In the fourth quarter of 2023 alone, port calls handled 349.5 million tonnes of goods globally, with an increase of +2.7% over the same period of the year previous.