In 2024, the ports of Sardinia have handled 41.65 million tonnes of goods, with a An increase of +1.7% on the previous year. Growth is was mainly generated by the increase in miscellaneous goods, with the containerized cargoes amounted to 825 thousand tons (+145.9%) for container handling of 196,539 TEUs (+41.5%) and with rolling stock amounting to 12.66 million tonnes (+3.2%). Liquid bulk cargo also increased slightly by +0.8% with a total of 24.43 million tonnes, of which 12.30 million tonnes of crude oil (-2.1%), 11.64 million tons of products refined petroleum products (+4.8%), 229 thousand tons of refined petroleum products chemicals (+20.9%), 211 thousand tons of petroleum products gaseous, liquefied or compressed and natural gas (+4.3%) and 54 thousand tons of other liquid bulk cargo (-68.8%). Solid bulk cargo, instead, they decreased by -9.1% to 3.73 million tons, including 1.46 million tons of coal and lignite (-8.8%), 1.34 million tonnes of minerals and materials to be construction (-7.1%), 383 thousand tons of cereals (-1.1%), 156 thousand tons of food, feed and oilseeds (+44.1%), 61 thousand tons of metallurgical products (-49.4%), 29 thousand tons tons of chemicals (-85.4%) and 302 thousand tons of other dry bulk (+25.2%).

The global increase in freight traffic in Sardinian ports is was generated by the +3.5% increase in volumes handled by the port of Cagliari/Sarroch which amounted to 30.10 million Tons. Traffic in the port of Porto Torres with 3.08 million tons (+0.4%) as follows as in the port of Olbia with 6.40 million tons (-0.5%). In traffic in the ports of Oristano decreased with 1.17 million tons (-9.1%), Portoscuso/Portovesme with 689 thousand tons (-16.0%), Arbatax with 110 thousand tons (-7.6%) and Golfo Aranci with 92 thousand tonnes (-35.1%).

Last year, passenger traffic in port ports was 7.22 million people (+8.6%). In the sector of scheduled services, ferry traffic totalled 5.56 million passengers (+4.5%) and that of services to the islands fewer 970 thousand passengers (+9.9%). In the cruise segment, it is a new historical record was set with 864 thousand passengers (+57.5%) all in transit.

"2024 - commented the president of the Authority of the Port System of the Sea of Sardinia, Massimo Deiana - has represented the peak of a rapid rise that, in just four years, has filled the crisis of 2020 and overcome, in terms of growth, the excellent results of 2019 and, last but not least, those of the 2023. We are witnessing an all-time record in the cruise market, which is preparing to approach the threshold of 700 thousand transits and to an equally satisfactory one, in the ferry sector, which breaks through the ceiling of 6 and a half million passengers. A port system The one that emerged from the 2024 figure is healthy, also supported by a recovery of the freight sector which, despite the international crisis, closes with a general plus sign, bringing back a breath of fresh air optimism on the docks and, consequently, to a new season entrepreneurial and employment for the airports of competence".