In the second quarter of this year, Turkey's ports 136.9 million tons of goods handled, with an increase by +1.6% over the same period in 2024. The only category to have recorded a slight decrease was the of liquid bulk cargo which totaled 40.7 million tons (-0,4%). In the dry bulk sector, the following have been handled 38.6 million tons (+0.9%). In the Miscellaneous Goods segment containerized traffic remained stable as it 37.1 million tonnes with a handling of containers equal to 3,658,928 TEUs (+6.7%). On the other hand, the conventional goods with 17.4 million tonnes (+10.9%) and rolling stock with 3.1 million tons (+6.8%).

In the second quarter of 2025, the total traffic of the goods to and from Italy was 12.7 million tons (+10.1%), with only one container traffic being equal to 165,303 TEUs (-6.2%).

In the first half of this year, Turkish ports handled 275.1 million tons of cargo globally, with a progression of +2.2% over the first half of 2024. The volumes of liquid and solid bulk were equal to 83.9 million tonnes (+1.4%) and 79.3 million tonnes (+2,8%). Containers, with 71.6 million tons and 7,013,531 TEUs moved, marked percentage changes of -0.9% and +3.4%. Conventional cargo amounted to 33.9 million tonnes (+9.1%) and rolling stock at 6.4 million tons (+8.5%).

In the first six months of 2025, traffic with Italy 24.0 million tonnes (+6.1%), with only one traffic containerized which amounted to 313,063 TEUs (-7.0%).