In the second quarter of this year, Tunisian ports 6.8 million tons of goods handled, with a decrease of -3.8% on the same period in 2024 that was determined from the -10.2% contraction in cargo volumes at loading, amounted to 2.3 million tons, while the goods at the landing remained stable having amounted to almost 4.5 million tons (-0.1%).

In addition, the overall reduction in traffic was generated by the -22.2% drop in total traffic of hydrocarbons which was over 1.9 million tons and by the decrease in the traffic of various goods, which fell to almost 2.1 million tonnes (-5.3%), of which 1.1 million tonnes of containerized goods (+4.9%) made with a handling of containers equal to 131 thousand TEUs (+5.0%), 535 thousand tons of rolling stock (+10.7%) and 392 thousand tons of other miscellaneous goods (-36,0%). On the other hand, other liquid bulk cargo is growing with 180 thousand tons (+7.1%), as well as grain traffic with 1.3 million tonnes (+19.3%) and that of other dry bulk with 1.3 million tons (+16.3%).

In the first half of 2025, Tunisia's ports handled 13.8 million tons of cargo globally, with a decrease of -3.2% on the first half of last year, of which 9.1 million tonnes of goods on landing (+3.3%) and 4.7 million tonnes million tons at loading (-13.7%). In the field of liquid bulk cargo was handled a total of 4.1 million of tons of hydrocarbons (-14.1%) and 386 thousand tons of other loads (-12.9%). In the dry bulk sector, cereals are increased by +12.8% to 2.6 million tonnes, while the other Dry bulk cargo fell by -5.5% to 2.5 million tonnes. The were almost 4.1 million tons (+3.1%), of of which 2.1 million tonnes of containerised cargo (+3.7%) totaled with a container handling of 255 thousand TEUs (+7.3%), 1.1 million tons of rolling stock (+7.8%) and 973 thousand tons of other miscellaneous goods (-2.8%).