In the fourth quarter of 2024, freight traffic in ports decreased by -3.4% compared to the same period of the previous year, amounting to 69.3 million tonnes, of which 46.6 million tonnes at landing (-0.7%) and 22.7 million tonnes of tons at loading (-8.5%). The container traffic alone, which totaled 12.5 million tons (+10.3%) and was built with a handling of containers equal to 1.4 million TEUs (+17.4%). In the rolling stock sector, total traffic was 14.4 million tons (-1.3%). Bulk cargo also decreased slightly liquid with 32.1 million tonnes (-1.9%), while a lot of the decline in dry bulk cargo was accentuated amounted to 9.3 million tons (-22.5%).

Among the main national ports, based on the data released today by the Data and Statistical Studies Service of the French Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, that in the last quarter of last year the port system Haropa (Le Havre, Rouen and Paris airports) moved 20.7 million tonnes of cargo (-2.1%), of which 7.6 million tonnes of cargo tons of containerized goods (+14.1%), 165 thousand tons of rolling stock (+4.1%), 190 thousand tons of other miscellaneous goods (+9.0%), 10.6 million tonnes of liquid bulk (-4.3%) and 2.1 million tonnes of tons of dry bulk (-30.4%).

In the port of Marseille-Fos, quarterly traffic is stable result having amounted to over 18.6 million tons (-0.4%), with container traffic that was of 3.2 million tonnes (+1.1%) for a handling of containers equal to 351 thousand TEUs (+6.9%), with rolling stock having totalled 1.2 million tonnes (+11.1%) and other goods miscellaneous 308 thousand tons (-24.8%). The total volume of Liquid bulk cargo increased by +4.2% to 12.2% million tons, while dry bulk cargo fell by -26.4% to 1.7 million tonnes.

In the period October-December of 2024 traffic in Dunkirk is 11.3 million tonnes (+0.7%), including more than 1.2 million tonnes million tonnes of goods in containers (+18.5%), 3.1 million tonnes of tons of rolling stock (+6.1%), 298 thousand tons of other goods miscellaneous (-13.4%), 3.5 million tonnes of liquid bulk (+19.8%) and 3.1 million tons of dry bulk (-21.1%).

In the port of Calais, the total traffic was 9.8 million tonnes (-4.8%), of which 9.6 million tonnes of rolling stock (-4.8%), 149 thousand tons of dry bulk (+5.3%) and 17 thousand tons of liquid bulk (-50.2%).

In Nantes-Saint Nazaire the overall port traffic figure quarterly was 6.2 million tonnes (-17.9%), including 306 thousand tons in containers (-18.7%), 82 thousand tons of rolling stock (-13.8%), 65 thousand tons of other miscellaneous goods (+26.0%), 4.5 million tonnes of liquid bulk (-21.1%) and more than 1.2 million tons of dry bulk (-5.6%).

In the whole of 2024, French ports handled 279.5 million tons of goods, with a decrease of -0.6% compared to the previous year, of which 182.5 million tonnes at landing (-1.1%) and 97.0 million tons at loading (+0.2%). In the solo container segment The total traffic was 49.7 million tons (+13.8%) with a handling of containers equal to over 5.3 million TEUs (+11.5%). The rolling stock is amounted to 58.2 million tonnes (+0.9%), liquid bulk cargo at 123.4 million tons (-3.5%) and dry bulk cargo at 44.1 million tons (-7.3%).