Last year, the cruise terminals of Global Ports Holding (GPH), a company that is the main operator independent world of this port sector, have moved a record traffic of 16.67 million passengers, with an increase +31.7% on 2023, of which 8.02 million passengers in the terminals ports in the Americas (+53.3%), 5.05 million in terminals in the Western Mediterranean and Atlantic (+13.4%), 2.06 million cruise passengers in port terminals in the central and northern Mediterranean Europe (+24.1%), 1.50 million in Eastern Mediterranean ports (+17.1%) and 48 thousand passengers in the group's other terminals (+23,7%).

Total traffic in 2024 was totaled with the calls at GPH terminals of 5,678 cruise ships (+28.1%), of which 2,483 ships docked in terminals in the Americas (+52.3%), 1,651 in those of the western Mediterranean and the Atlantic (+10.1%), 797 ships in the ports of the Central Mediterranean and Northern Europe (+38.6%), 733 in terminals in the Eastern Mediterranean (+3.5%) and 14 stopovers in the other terminals (-33.3%).

In the fourth quarter of 2024 alone, cruise traffic in the GPH terminal set a new quarterly all-time high with 4.67 million passengers, up +35.5% on the same period of the previous year, traffic that was carried out with the berths of 1,836 ships (+39.9%).

Turkey's Global Investment Holdings (GIH), which owns the entire share capital of GPH, announced that in 2024 the revenues of the Global Ports Holding increased by +21% having amounted to 4.48 billion Turkish lira ($232 million) compared to 7.00 billion in 2023. EBITDA grew by +18% to 5.32 billion Turkish lira.