After four years of growth, freight traffic will be in 2023 in Turkish ports decreased by -4.0% to 521.1 million tonnes compared to 542.6 million tonnes in the year previous. Last year, only import traffic increase to €256.2 million tonnes (+5.0%). Export goods are declining, which have totaled 135.5 million tons as well as traffic and in transit, which were respectively 62.6 million tonnes (-7.2%) and 66.7 million tonnes (-17,6%). In the container segment alone, the total traffic is amounted to 12.6 million TEUs (+1.5%).

In 2023, the traffic handled by Turkey's ports to and from for Italy it was 44.6 million tonnes (-3.8%), with only one containerized traffic that was equal to 584 thousand TEUs (-3.6%).

In the fourth quarter of last year, Turkish ports handled a total of 129.3 million tonnes of cargo, with a decrease of -3.3% on the corresponding period of 2022. The export and import goods totalled 37.5 million tonnes (+6.9%) and 61.6 million tonnes (-1.3%). Cabotage traffic amounted to 15.1 million tonnes (-4.7%) and transit traffic of 15.0 million tonnes. tonnes (-26.2%). Containerized traffic was even to almost 3.2 million TEUs (+5.8%). The total traffic of the goods to and from Italy amounted to €10.0 million tonnes (-33.0%), with container traffic amounted to 172 thousand TEUs (+36.1%).