Thanks to an increase of +11.0% year-on-year achieved despite the effects of the crisis in the Red Sea penalized ports which, like Gioia Tauro, are located in the center of the Mediterranean, container traffic at the port in 2024 has reached a new historical record being was equal to 3,940,447 TEUs compared to 3,548,827 TEUs handled in the 2023 when the previous peak had been marked.

The Port System Authority of the Tyrrhenian Seas Ionian and Southern Ionian highlighted that among the challenges overcome in the during 2024, there is, "first of all, the threat posed by the European ETS Directive which, in creating a distortion of market competition, penalizes ports Mediterranean ports destined for transhipment favoring competing ports of the African shore".

If last year containers recorded a new record, the traffic of cars at the Automar terminal in Gioia Tauro, which amounted to 306,329 vehicles, declined by -17% compared to 2023.

The president of the Port Authority, Andrea Agostinelli, underlined that That of 2024 is "certainly a very which highlights the extraordinary ability to resistance of this port to external factors that would have may have affected our "performance", even and especially thanks to the trust and investments of our terminal operators. There is no doubt - he added - that the 2025 will bring us other great results, even if in this I cannot hide the disappointment due to the sinking of the industrial project by Baker Hughes in the port of Corigliano, due to to causes that are now all too well known ( of 8 October 2024, ed.). A disappointment that in any case cannot be influence a development trend and new projects that involves all the ports of our System".