In the second quarter of this year, French ports handled a total of 71.16 million tons of goods, with a slight decrease of -0.4% over the same period of 2024 which was determined by the -3.4% reduction in goods at the end of the shipment amounted to 24.13 million tons, while the goods at unloading grew by +1.2% having amounted to 47.03 million tons.

In addition, the French Studies and Data Service announced today - The overall contraction in traffic was caused by the decrease of -7.6% in dry bulk that 10.79 million tonnes. Bulk traffic liquid, with a total of 31.61 million tonnes, recorded an increase of +0.8% and a more pronounced increase in +1.2% was marked by miscellaneous goods, which rose to 28.77 million tons thanks to the +4.7% growth in goods containerized containers, amounting to 13.24 million tons with container handling of 1.38 million TEUs (+3.7%), which offset the -3.1% drop in rolling stock which fell to 14.21 million tons.

Among the main national ports by volume of traffic, in the period April-June 2025 the Haropa port system, consisting of the ports of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris, has moved 21.12 million tons of goods (+2.8%), the port of Marseille 19.17 million tons (+5.0%), the port of Dunkirk 10.93 million tons (-5.7%), the port of Calais 9.70 million tons (-4.5%), the port of Nantes Saint-Nazaire 6.51 million tons (-8.7%), the port of La Rochelle 2.23 million tons (+3.6%) and the port of Bordeaux 1.50 million tons (-6,2%).

In the first six months of 2025, global freight traffic handled by French ports was 141.80 million tons, with a decrease of -0.9% on the first half of last year, of which 94.09 million tonnes of cargo at the unloading (+2.7%) and 47.71 million tons of goods at embarkation (-7,3%). The total dry bulk traffic amounted to to 21.23 million tons (-11.8%) and that of bulk liquid at 63.92 million tonnes (+2.4%). In the field of Miscellaneous goods traffic amounted to 56.64 million tonnes (+0.2%), of which 25.88 million tonnes of goods were containers (+4.2%) made with container handling equal to 2.73 million TEUs (+4.6%) and 28.31 million tonnes of rolling stock (-4.2%).

In the first half of this year, the Haropa port system handled 41.40 million tons of cargo (-2.0%), the port of Marseille 37.59 million tons (+7.8%), the port of Marseille Dunkirk 22.30 million tons (-4.9%), the port of Calais 19.48 million tons (-5.1%), the port of Nantes Saint-Nazaire 13.82 million tons (-2.8%), the port of La Rochelle 4.16 million tons (-9.9%) and the port of Bordeaux 3.04 million tons (-3.3%).