In the first nine months of 2024, container traffic at the terminal on Pier VII of the port of Trieste managed by Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT), a company that handles almost 90% of the container traffic in the Julian port of call, was equal to 538 thousand TEUs, with a decrease of -3.0% on the same period last year. The decrease was determined by the -20.3% year-on-year decline recorded in the first quarter of 2010. 2024, a sharp reduction that was almost entirely offset by the increase of +3.9% recorded in the following quarter and from the increase of +7.5% totaled in the third quarter of this year when traffic was equal to 203 thousand TEUs.

TMT is controlled by Terminal Investment Limited (TIL) of the MSC shipowning group and owned by the Trieste-based T.O. Delta.