Last month, Turkish ports set a new record monthly container traffic history having handled a total of 1.37 million TEUs, with an increase of +17.6% on the previous year. May 2024 and with an increase of 187 thousand TEUs compared to the previous record set in August last year.

In the first five months of 2025, containerized traffic total of 5.82 million TEUs, with a total of Progression of +3.1% over the corresponding period of 2024.

In May 2025, total freight traffic in the ports amounted to 48.16 million tonnes (+4.7%), while in the first five months of the year the figure was 230.61 million tonnes (+2.0%).

Announcing these figures today, the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Abdulkadir Uraloglu, specified that in the first five months of 2025 the largest share of exports through national ports was the one to Italy followed by exports to the USA and Spain, while the volume of exports to the United States substantial imports from Russia.