In the first quarter of this year, Turkish ports 137.2 million tons of goods handled, with a decrease in of -0.7% over the same period of 2025 determined by the reduction of import and export traffic, with the former being amounted to 69.9 million tons (-0.4%) and the second to 31.8 million tons million tons (-10.5%). Cabotage traffic is 17.8 million tonnes (+14.4%) and that of transit at 17.7 million tons (+4.8%).

The reduction in traffic was also generated the decrease in dry bulk traffic, equal to 38.7 million tonnes (-5.0%), by that of freight traffic of 15.9 million tonnes (-3.8%), and the traffic of rolling stock, equal to 3.1 million tons (-6.6%). Growing, on the other hand, liquid bulk traffic with 44.2 million tons (+2.3%) and container traffic with 35.4 million tons (+2.5%) and with container handling that is amounted to 3,363,417 TEUs (+0.5%).

In the first three months of 2026, the total traffic of the goods with Italy was 11.4 million tons (+0,6%). During the period, Turkish ports handled a containerized with Italy equal to 169,242 TEUs (+14.5%), of which 145,753 TEUs in import-export (+14.8%) and 23,489 TEUs in transit (+13,1%).