After the post-Covid recovery, the trend in traffic volume of goods handled by the port of Civitavecchia has been and in 2024 there was a decline of -13.5% on the previous year having been handled 7.88 million of tonnes compared to 9.11 million tonnes in 2023. The last year the decline was more pronounced for the goods at the landing that totaled 4.76 million tons (-18.6%) and loading at embarkation with 3.12 million tons (-4.3%).

In the miscellaneous goods sector, there was a reduction in both rolling stock volumes with 4.93 million tonnes (-5.1%) and the containerized goods fell by -2.6% to 875 thousand tons with a container handling of 106,592 TEUs (+5.2%) and the other miscellaneous goods with 5 thousand tons (-57.1%). Bulk traffic has more than halved having amounted to 873 thousand tons (-55.7%) due to the collapse of traffic coal, equal to 100 thousand tons (-92.8%), in view of the closure by the end of 2025 of the Torre Valdaliga thermoelectric plant North, while metallurgical products grew by +54.0% to 547 thousand tons and minerals and minerals and construction materials with 176 million tons (+198.6%). In the liquid bulk segment, consisting essentially of refined petroleum products, 1.19 million were handled of tons (+15.6%).

If in 2024 cruise traffic in the port of Civitavecchia set a new all-time record with 3.46 million passengers ( of 4 February 2025), in the ferry sector, traffic is decreased by -4.6% as 1.54 million people with scheduled maritime services.

Last year, the traffic of goods in the port of Fiumicino, made up of petroleum products, increased by +10.6% to 3.41 million tons, while in the port of Gaeta it was fell by -10.8% to 1.02 million tons.

Highlighting that the decline in traffic in the port of Civitavecchia «is mainly attributable to the closure of the Enel coal-fired power plant and national and system taken in the last ten years that go far beyond our and which have been imposed on the Authority and which are, also, outside the faculty of each individual operator", the extraordinary commissioner of the System Authority Port of the Center-North Tyrrhenian Sea, Pino Musolino - ha underlined that "the system as a whole is still holding up, with very significant and important data in the ports of Fiumicino and Gaeta especially in bulk and in Civitavecchia the data in general are positive and comforting, taking into account the two important crises that crossed the Mediterranean in 2024, seeing us aligned to the traffic estimates of the vast majority of ports Italian and Mediterranean. However, we remain vigilant - he concluded Musolino - and we monitor the issue of Torre Valdaliga Nord which represents an important wound and a great limitation to the planning and the possibility of reasoning concrete for the near future with respect to our system port sector".