In the first nine months of 2024, the port of Palermo handled 5.95 million tons of goods, with a decrease of -2.5% on the same period last year, of which 3.76 million tonnes of loads at landing (-0.7%) and 2.19 million tons boarding (-5.5%). The decline was determined by the reduction in rolling stock traffic, which amounted to overall to 5.32 million tons (-3.9%). In Dry bulk cargo also decreased with 80 thousand tons (-2.1%). Liquid bulk cargo grew by +13.4% to 418 thousand tons and containerized goods also increased with 130 thousand tons (+10.6%).

In the passenger sector, ferry traffic marked an increase of +1.2% with 1.25 million passengers and traffic recorded an increase of +5.1% with 704 thousand passengers, of which 131 thousand at disembarkation/embarkation (+10.1%) and 573 thousand in transit (+4.0%).

Among the other ports under the jurisdiction of the Port System Authority of the Sicilian Sea Western, total traffic in the first nine months of 2024 of goods in the port of Termini Imerese has been 695 thousand tons (-37.4%), of which 509 thousand tons of rolling stock (-44.4%) and 185 thousand tons of dry bulk (-4.4%); The port of Trapani handled a total of 445 thousand tons (-0.6%), including 291 thousand tons of miscellaneous goods (+17.2%) and 150 thousand tons of dry bulk (-19.9%); the port of Porto Empedocle handled 319 thousand tons (-8.1%), of which 241 thousand tons of dry bulk (-10.8%) and 78 thousand tons of miscellaneous cargo (+1,8%); the ports of Gela and Licata, which have recently come under the management of the Port Authority of Western Sicily, have moved respectively 1.29 million tons of petroleum products refined and 93 thousand tons of dry bulk cargo.