Last year, Turkey's ports handled 531.7 million tonnes of goods, with a total of 531.7 million tonnes of goods, growth of +2.0% over 2023. Export trade and were up by +5.0% respectively and +0.4% having risen to 142.3 million and 257.1 million Tons. Transit traffic also rose with 69.1 million of tonnes (+2.3%) and cabotage traffic with 63.3 million tonnes of tons (+1.0%).

If the main flows of origin and destination of goods were increasing, so it was not for the volumes of liquid bulk and dry bulk that in 2024, with totals of 162.2 million and 152.2 million respectively tons, recorded decreases of -3.3% and -1.0% on the year previous. On the other hand, both containerized goods with 143.4 million tonnes (+7.4%), volume achieved with a container handling of 13,529,731 TEUs (+7.8%), both rolling stock with 11.9 million tons (+5.5%).

Last year, traffic in Turkish ports to and from Italy was amounted to 44.7 million tonnes (+0.2%), with a total of 44.7 million tonnes (+0.2%), with a container traffic alone, which amounted to 618,407 TEU (+5.9%). In 2024, Italy was the main partner Turkish ports by volume of traffic followed by the USA and Spain.

In addition, in 2024, cruise traffic in the ports of the Turkey was nearly 1.9 million passengers, with a increase of +22.5% on 2023, of which 1.6 million passengers in transit (+17.3%), 154 thousand passengers disembarking (+56.7%) and 160 thousand passengers at boarding (+58.8%).

In the fourth quarter of 2024 alone, Turkish ports handled a total of 133.9 million tons of goods, with an increase of +3.6% over the same period of the year previous. In the liquid bulk sector, the following were handled 41.0 million tonnes (-1.6%) and in dry bulk 38.5 million tons (+0.6%). Containerized traffic has amounted to 35.0 million tonnes (+2.3%), with a container handling of 3,389,370 TEUs (+6.4%), and the rolling stock traffic at 3.2 million tonnes (+8.0%).

In the last quarter of last year, traffic to and from Italy was 11.5 million tons of cargo (+14.5%), with only one container traffic experiencing a down by -16.4% to 143,638 TEUs.