In the third quarter of this year, freight traffic in the ports of France recorded a marked decline of -7.3% having amounted to 66.3 million tonnes compared to 71.5 million tonnes million in the same period of 2023. The volumes of goods alone at the disembarkation - announced today the Department of Data and Statistical Studies at the French Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion - amounted to 43.9 million tons (-5.6%) and those on board at 22.4 million tons (-10,4%).

To mitigate the overall reduction in traffic is was the only container segment in which more than 12.5 million tons of cargo handled globally, with a sharp increase of +14.0% on the July-September period of 2014. 2023, traffic that in terms of twenty-foot containers is Result of 1.35 million TEUs (+11.1%). On the other hand, both rolling stock traffic, which totalled 14.3 million tons (-1.1%) and bulk traffic, with liquid cargoes results of 28.6 million tonnes (-13.9%) and solid to 9.9 million tons (-14.7%).

Quarterly traffic was also decrease in all the main national ports, with the Haropa port system (ports of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris) and in the third quarter of 2024 handled 20.2 million tons (-2.7%) followed by the ports of Marseille with 16.9 million tonnes (-8.5%), Dunkirk with 10.6 million tonnes (-0.2%), Calais with 9.9 million tonnes (-4.5%), Nantes Saint-Nazaire with 5.2 million tonnes (-29.5%), La Rochelle with 2.0 million tons (-15.4%) and Bordeaux with 1.5 million tons tons (-3.8%).

In the first nine months of this year, total freight traffic in French ports was 209.9 million tons, with a growth of +0.2% over the same period in 2023. In the miscellaneous goods sector, 83.9 million tons (+6.4%), of which 37.1 million tons of goods containerized vehicles (+15.0%) and 43.6 million tons of rolling stock (+1,2%). Liquid bulk cargo was 91.1 million tons (-4.1%) and dry waste 34.9 million tons (-2.1%).