In the first three months of 2025, freight traffic in the port of Trieste fell by -4.3%, a decline that was caused by the contraction of bulk volumes partially offset by the sustained growth of miscellaneous goods. Overall, the Julian port handled 13.6 million tonnes of cargo compared to 14.2 million tonnes tons in the first quarter of last year.

In the liquid bulk segment alone, traffic is almost 8.7 million tonnes, with a reduction of -12.3%, negative dynamics - specified the Italian Revenue Authority Port System of the Eastern Adriatic Sea - due to the scheduled maintenance interventions on some refineries connected to the transalpine TAL pipeline. In the bulk sector 29 thousand tons were handled, with a decrease in of -26.3% mitigated by the recovery of cereal traffic with 18 thousand tons (+12.2%) and metallurgical products with over thousand tons (+100.0%).

The total figure for miscellaneous goods was 4.9 million of tons (+14.6%), with only one container traffic which, with 237,534 TEUs handled (+34.8%), marked the best first quarter in the history of the Julian airport. The container traffic on board ro-ro vessels which reached 31,717 TEU (+11.3%). In the rolling stock sector, the following were handled 78 thousand units (+2.4%).

Cruise traffic is down with over 2 thousand passengers (-37.7%).

In the first quarter of this year, freight traffic in the port of Monfalcone increased by +54.9% to 1.2 million tons, of which 972 thousand tons of dry bulk (+63.2%) and 224 thousand tons of miscellaneous goods (+26.8%).