In the first quarter of 2025, Turkish ports handled 135.9 million tonnes of goods, a volume that represents a slight increase of +1.1% on the same quarter of 2024, is the new record for this time of year and is 2.2 million tonnes lower than the quarterly record alone established in the period April-June 2022. To generate the growth was the new all-time high of imported goods from abroad which amounted to almost 70.2 million tons (+5,2%). Transit traffic was stable being 16.7 million tonnes. Imported goods down from abroad, which totalled 35.6 million tonnes (-1.3%) and cabotage traffic also decreased with 13.3 million tons (-9.8%).

In the first three months of this year, traffic alone handled by Turkey's ports has been equal to 3.35 million TEUs as well as in the corresponding period of 2024.

In the first quarter of 2025, the total traffic handled from Turkish ports to and from Italy stood at 11.3 million tons (+2.1%), with only one container traffic which was equal to 148 thousand TEUs (-7.8%).

In the first three months of this year, cruise traffic in Turkey was 102 thousand passengers, with a sharp increase by +66.3%.