In the third quarter of this year, Turkish ports 133.0 million tons of goods handled, with a slight decrease -1.1% which was generated by the reduction in the volumes of export and import cargoes, respectively to 34.4 million (-3.1%) and 58.3 million tonnes (-9.2%). The cabotage traffic, on the other hand, increased by +19.7% to 22.0 million tonnes and growing, it was also transit traffic with 18.3 million tons (+11.5%).

With regard to the types of goods that passed through the ports of call in Turkey, in the period July-September 2026 both liquid bulk cargo increased, totaling 41.6 million tons (+2.5%), both containerized goods that are amounted to 37.8 million tonnes (+4.7%) with a handling of containers equal to 3,696,969 TEUs (+4.1%), of which 2,736,166 TEUs in import-export (+3.0%), 279,213 TEUs under the cabotage (+23.6%) and 681,590 TEUs in transit (+2.0%). Declining dry bulk with 35.7 million tonnes (-8.3%), with 15.2 million tonnes (-4.7%) and rolling stock with 2.7 million tons (-7.8%).

In the third quarter of this year, the total traffic alone with Italy was 12.1 million tons of goods (+6.2%), with only one container traffic being equal to 196,037 TEUs (+7.3%), including 176,559 TEUs in import-export (+8.1%) and 19,478 TEUs in transit (0%).

In the first nine months of 2026, total freight traffic handled by Turkish ports was 412.1 million tons, up by +0.6% over the same period of 2014, last year. The traffic with Italy alone was 35.5 million tons (+0.3%).