Last year, despite the increase in volumes that occurred In the last quarter, the traffic of goods in the ports of the Tunisia recorded a decrease of -5.5% on 2023 having amounted to 27.75 million tonnes, of which 17.70 million tonnes were landing (-2.1%) and 10.05 million tons at embarkation (-11.0%). In the miscellaneous goods sector alone, the total was 8.07 million tonnes (+0.9%), of which 4.17 million tonnes of containerized goods (+7.1%) made with a handling of containers equal to 492 thousand TEUs (+10.3%), 1.91 million tons of rolling stock (-3.6%) and 2.00 million tonnes of other goods (-6,3%). In the dry bulk sector, cereals, with 4.76 million tonnes, marked a slight increase of +0.4%, while the other cargoes, with 5.54 million tons, are decreased by -9.0%). Liquid bulk cargo is declining both relatively hydrocarbons, with 8.63 million tonnes (-9.5%), and other cargoes totaled 747 thousand tons (-25.6%).

In 2024, the largest volume of freight traffic is handled by the port of Rades with 6.91 million tons (+4.3%) followed by the ports of Skhira with 4.91 million tons (-20.8%), Bizerte with 4.83 million tons (+14.3%), Sfax with 4.76 million tonnes (-14.3%), Gabes with 3.10 million tonnes tonnes (-4.5%), Sousse with 1.58 million tonnes (+0.9%), Zarzis with 1.02 million tons (-10.4%) and La Goulette with 938 thousand tons (-14.5%).

Last year, passenger traffic on scheduled services in Tunisian ports was 795 thousand people (+0.9%) and that of cruise passengers of 223 thousand people (+24.2%).

In the fourth quarter of 2024 alone, port calls handled a total of 7.19 million tons of goods, with an increase of +6.5% over the same period of the year previous, of which 4.61 million tonnes of cargo at landing (+6.9%) and 2.58 million tons at embarkation (+5.8%). The total of miscellaneous goods was 2.08 million tons (+18.1%), including 1.10 million tonnes of cargo containerized (+23.7%) made with a handling of containers equal to 135 thousand TEUs (+21.4%), 468 thousand tons of rolling stock (-1.4%) and 508 thousand tons of other miscellaneous goods (+29.0%). Dry bulk cargo also grew with 1.42 million tons of cereals (+6.9%) and 1.54 million tonnes of other cargoes (+3,4%). In the liquid bulk segment, hydrocarbons are fell by -2.6% to 1.94 million tonnes, while the other cargoes increased by +17.9% to 211 thousand tons.

In the period October-December last year, passengers in the liner maritime services was 133 thousand units (+12.1%) and that of cruise passengers of 69 thousand (+135.8%).