In 2023, with a total of 40.95 million tonnes traffic, the traffic of goods in the ports of Sardinia has down by -6.7% on the previous year due to the reduction in bulk, with liquid cargoes down by -6.9% to 24.24 million tonnes and solids by -26.6% to 4.11 million tonnes. The Port System Authority of the Sea of Sardinia specified that on the decline in dry bulk a contraction in imports of grain, feed and coal weighs heavily, Commodities that have suffered the most from the trading freeze with the main suppliers in Eastern Europe and Asia: Ukraine and Russia. Exports of quarry materials and minerals, which from about 1.7 million tons in 2022 rose to just over 1.2 million. In the miscellaneous goods sector, traffic grew by +3.0% to 12.61 million tonnes. In the containers, last year the only transhipment traffic was amounted to 38 thousand TEUs (-29.6%).

Regarding ferry passenger traffic in ports of Cagliari, Olbia, Porto Torres, Golfo Aranci and Arbatax, a new all-time record was reached in 2023 with 5.3 million passengers, up +7.0% on 2022 when The previous peak had been recorded. Last year, the Number of passengers carried by maritime services with the islands minors amounted to 883 thousand units (+6.9%). It is The rapid recovery of cruise traffic also continued, in 2023 it was 434 thousand passengers (+96.9%).