Last year, cargo traffic in Croatian ports was decreased by -1.7% to 23.20 million tonnes compared to 23.61 million in 2022. In 2023, the most large flow of cargo at landing, amounting to 17.23 million tonnes, recorded a decrease of -1.0%, while cargoes shipments, which totalled 6.12 million tonnes, marked a decrease of -8.9%.

In 2023, the prevailing type of cargo, that of bulk amounted to 10.87 million tonnes, with a growth of +5.4% over the previous year. Dry bulk is decreased by -8.0% to 6.73 million tonnes. In Increase in containerized cargoes, which set a new record 3.91 million tonnes (+2.6%), has been achieved with a record container handling of 442 thousand TEUs handled (+5.2%), with a record traffic of 409 thousand TEU handled in the port of Rijeka alone (+3.1%). Traffic in rolling stock amounted to 201 thousand tonnes (-65.0%) and that of other miscellaneous goods to 1.44 million tonnes (-9.4%).

In the fourth quarter of 2023 alone, overall traffic was 5.34 million tonnes, a reduction of -7.2% on the corresponding period of the previous year, of which €3.71 million tonnes of goods at unloading (-15.2%) and 1.62 million tonnes of goods tonnes at loading (+16.3%). The global traffic volumes of the liquid and dry bulk decreased respectively -13.6% and -10.5% of €2.39 million and €1.51 million of tons. In the area of miscellaneous goods, 1.06 million tonnes of containerised goods (+25.1%) with a Record container handling for this time of year equal to 114 thousand TEUs (+30.6%) - of which 105 thousand handled in Rijeka (+28.4%) -, 43 thousand tons of rolling stock (+18.5%) and 339 thousand tonnes of other miscellaneous goods (-19.2%).

In 2023 as a whole, passenger traffic in the ports of the Croatia was 35.0 million people (+3.5%), of which 33.69 million passengers on regular lines (+2.4%) and 1.26 million million cruise passengers (+39.2%).