In the fourth quarter of 2025, the port of Palermo handled 1.92 million tonnes, down -9.6% from 2.12 million tonnes million tons in the same period of the previous year. The was determined by the reduction in both goods and entering and leaving the Sicilian port as well as the contraction in volumes in all the main sectors commodity products. In particular, in the period October-December of Last year, the goods at the landing amounted to 1.25 million tons (-11.6%) and those on board at 672 thousand tons (-5,6%). The main traffic flow, that of rolling stock, recorded a slight decrease of -0.5%, falling to a total of 1.81 million tons. Container traffic, equal to 47 thousand tons in the last quarter of 2024, it was almost zeroed out after the transfer of the business to the containers at the port of Termini Imerese ( of the 11th June 2025). Liquid bulk volumes down sharply and solid amounting to 89 thousand (-61.6%) and 20 thousand tons respectively (-19,9%).

In the passenger sector, cruise traffic is state of 215 thousand units (-18.7%), of which 35 thousand on boarding/disembarking (-25.2%) and 180 thousand in transit (-17.4%), while ferry passenger traffic amounted to 260 thousand units (+2.7%).

In the whole of 2025, the port of Palermo handled 7.95 million of tons of goods, with a decrease of -1.5% on the year previous, of which 4.95 million tonnes at landing (-4.3%) and 3.00 million tons at loading (+3.5%). Total traffic of rolling stock was 7.35 million tons (+2.9%). Containerized goods were 68 thousand tons (-61.7%). The liquid bulk cargo, largely consisting of petroleum products amounted to 407 thousand tons (-37.3%) and those solid at 129 thousand tons (+22.9%).

Among the other ports administered by the System Authority Port of the Western Sicilian Sea, in the whole of 2025 the port of Termini Imerese handled 1.50 million tons (+56.4%), of which 1.14 million tonnes of rolling stock (+60.4%), 73 thousand tons of new traffic of containerized goods and 278 thousand tons of dry bulk (+14.4%). The port of Trapani handled 722 thousand tons (+32.7%), including 340 thousand tons of rolling stock (+27.7%), 154 thousand of container loads (+34.9%), 209 thousand tons of dry bulk (+30.8%) and 19 thousand tons of dry bulk cargo (+30.8%) tons of liquid bulk (+385.7%). In the port of call of Porto Empedocle, 520 thousand tons were handled (+19.0%), of which 391 thousand tons of dry bulk (+18.0%) and 129 thousand tons tons of rolling stock (+22.3%). In the port of Gela, traffic is 1.40 million tons of petroleum products refined (-5.8%). The port of Licata handled 168 thousand tons of dry bulk (+36.5%).