In the third quarter of 2026, as well as since the beginning of the year, it was continued the marked growth in the traffic of goods handled Croatian ports, which amounted to 6.60 million euros in the period tons, with an increase of +18.5% on the July-September quarter of 2025. Goods at embarkation amounted to 2.07 million tons (+56.4%) and those on landing at 4.52 million (+6.7%).

With the exception of the total traffic of dry bulk cargo, which is fell by -31.6% to 660 thousand tons, all other commodities marked an increase, which was limited due to liquid bulk cargo totaling 2.94 million tonnes (+4,0%). Growth in the goods sector is more significant various where containerized loads stood at 2.23 million tons (+69.4%), rolling stock at 92 thousand tons (+27.1%) and other miscellaneous goods to 676 thousand tons (+75.3%).

Passenger traffic, on the other hand, was stable, which was of 18.37 million units (+0.8%), of which 17.53 million passengers of regular services (+0.6%) and 808 thousand cruise passengers (+6,2%).

In the first nine months of 2026, total freight traffic was 18.99 million tonnes, up +20.0% on the previous year, corresponding period of last year. Passenger traffic was 30.06 million units for services regular (+0.1%) and 1.39 million for cruises (+10.4%).