In the fourth quarter of 2025, French ports handled 74.2 million tonnes of goods, with a An increase of +7.2% over the same period of the previous year driven by the +15.9% increase in loading volumes amounted to 26.2 million tonnes, while goods at the landing, with 48.0 million tonnes, recorded a growth more attenuated by +2.9%. In addition, the increase in was generated by increases in volumes and containerized goods, which amounted to 13.3 million tons (+6.5%), with a container handling of over 1.4 million TEUs (+3.4%), both of liquid and solid bulk cargo, equal to 33.7 million tons (+5.6%) and 12.0 million tons respectively million tons (+26.6%). Rolling stock, with 14.1 million tons, fell by -1.7%.

Among the main French ports by volume of traffic, in the October-December period last year were growth in volumes handled by the Haropa port system, with 22.1 million tons (+9.5), and the ports of Dunkirk with 13.3 million tonnes (+16.7%), Nantes Saint-Nazaire with 6.8 million tonnes of tonnes (+15.7%), La Rochelle with 2.5 million tonnes (+40.3%) and Bordeaux with 1.5 million tons (-2.9%), while it was decreased traffic in the port of Marseille-Fos which handled 18.2 million tonnes (-2.0%) and also that totalled by the port of Calais which amounted to 9.6 million tons (-1,9%).

In the whole of 2025, French ports have handled 286.8 million tonnes of cargo, with a total of 286.8 million tonnes of cargo, increase of +2.7% on the previous year, of which 188.3 million tons at landing (+3.2%) and 98.5 million tons boarding (+1.8%). In the container sector, traffic is state of 50.7 million tons (+1.7%) with a of containers amounting to over 5.5 million TEUs (+3.6%). The rolling stock amounted to 56.7 million tonnes (-2.6%). The traffic of was 128.5 million tons (+4.5%) and dry bulk cargo by 46.1 million tons (+4,7%).