In the first six months of 2024, freight traffic in ports was 269.2 million tons, with a increase of +3.2% over the first half of last year, which was was generated by the increases of +13.3% and +0.8% respectively in the goods in export and import which amounted to 72.4 million and 132.6 million tons, while the traffic of cabotage fell by -2.5% to 30.7 million tonnes and transit traffic also decreased with 34.4 million tons (-1.5%).

With regard to the types of goods handled in the first half of this year, only bulk cargo decreased liquid, which represent the largest share of traffic, which amounted to 82.7 million tons (-1.8%). The Dry bulk cargo totaled 77.2 million tons (+0.2%), conventional goods 31.1 million tons (+6.3%), containerized 72.3 million tons (+11.8%) made with container handling of 6,781,483 TEUs (+11.2%) and rolling stock 5.9 million tons (+3.4%).

In the first six months of 2024, Turkish ports handled a total traffic of 22.6 million tons of goods to and from Italy, down by -6.8%. It is necessary note that in the second quarter of 2024 alone, after seven consecutive quarters of decline, traffic with Italy marked an increase of +12.0% over the same period last year year having been equal to 11.5 million tons.

In the second quarter of this year, total traffic in ports was 134.8 million tonnes (-0.6%), of which 40.9 million tonnes of liquid bulk (-0.7%), 38.2 million tonnes tons of dry bulk (-6.2%), 37.1 million tons of container loads (+7.1%), 15.7 million tons of cargo (-3.3%) and 2.0 million tonnes of rolling stock (+1,8%).