In the third quarter of last year, freight traffic in Greek ports recorded a slight decrease of -0.7% on the previous year. same period of 2023 determined by the reduction in the volumes of cargoes transported on international shipping lanes almost entirely offset by the increase in national traffic. In the July-September 2024 - the Authority announced today Hellenic Statistics - the total volume was 36.75 million tonnes, of which 8.30 million tonnes of traffic national (+7.1%) and 28.45 million tons of traffic (-2.8%), with 17.12 million tonnes of goods with foreign exports at unloading (-1.1%) and 11.33 million tons boarding (-5.3%).

Rolling stock traffic alone recorded an increase of +6.1% with 5.07 million vehicles handled, of which 4.77 million on the domestic routes (+6.8%) and 293 thousand on international routes (-4.1%).

In the passenger sector, quarterly traffic was 18.82 million people (+5.6%), of which 17.83 million transported by national maritime services (+5.9%) and 985 thousand by international ones (+1.2%), with 475 thousand at disembarkation (-1.8%) and 510 thousand at boarding (+4.1%).

In the first nine months of 2024, Greece's ports handled a total of 107.62 million tons of goods, with an increase of +0.2% over the same period of the year previous, of which 22.98 million tonnes of domestic traffic (+4.9%) and 84.64 million tonnes of international traffic (-1.0%), including 49.70 million tonnes of international cargo on landing (-0.3%) and 34.94 million tons on loading (-1,9%). Rolling stock totalled 10.35 million vehicles (+7.7%), with 9.72 million vehicles on domestic routes (+8.5%) and 631 thousand on international ones (-3.6%). In the segment of passenger traffic was 34.51 million people (+8.4%), of which 32.93 million embarked on ships used in national level (+8.8%) and 1.57 million of those who travel international lines (-0.2%).