In the first three months of 2024, Tunisia's ports handled 7.20 million tonnes of goods, a volume that represents a decrease of -8.3% compared to the same period last year and the third consecutive quarterly decline. The volumes of landed cargoes amounted to 4.35 million tonnes (-6.1%) and those at loading at 2.85 million tons (-11.5%).

In the miscellaneous goods sector, the total traffic is 1.88 million tons (-7.6%), of which 960 thousand tonnes of containerised goods (-6.4%) made with a Container handling amounted to 113 thousand TEUs (+8.5%), 536 thousand tons of rolling stock (+9.4%) and 388 thousand tons of other goods miscellaneous (-25.8%). In the liquid bulk segment, 2.24 million tonnes of hydrocarbons handled (-18.0%) and 275 thousand tons of other cargoes (-6.3%), and in that of dry bulk 1.19 million tonnes of cereals (+13.3%) and 1.61 million tonnes of cereals million tonnes of other dry bulk (-7.2%). Traffic of passengers on scheduled services was 98 thousand people (+2.3%) and that of cruise passengers of one thousand passengers, which in the first quarter of 2023 was at a standstill.

In the first three months of this year, freight traffic was in the ports of La Goulette (255 thousand tons, +40.2%), Sousse (437 thousand tons, +11.9%) and Gabes (997 thousand tonnes, +0.6%) and decreasing in the ports of Rades (1.52 million tonnes, -0.4%), Bizerte (1.29 million tonnes) tonnes, -1.2%), Sfax (1.13 million tonnes, -14.1%), Zarzis (286 thousand tons, -17.5%) and Skhira (1.30 million tons) tonnes, -28.3%).