In the third quarter of this year, freight traffic in the ports of Turkey amounted to 134.5 million tons, with a growth of +4.6% over the same period in 2024 which was determined by the increase in all the flows of with the exception of that of goods in transit which, with a of 16.5 million tonnes, recorded a decrease -5.6%. Export goods amounted to 35.5 million tons (+2.6%), those imported to 64.2 million tons tons (+6.9%) and cabotage traffic totaled 18.4 million tons (+10.6%).

Among the different types of goods, in the period July-September container traffic remained stable by 2025 as it was 36.1 million tonnes, while it grew +5.8% when counted in terms of twenty-foot containers handled which amounted to 3,554,699 TEUs. The volume of was over 2.9 million tonnes (+5.5%) and that of other miscellaneous goods by 15.9 million tonnes (+7,5%). In the dry bulk sector, the following were handled 39.0 million tonnes (+7.0%) and in liquid bulk 40.6 million tons (+5.5%).

In the third quarter of this year, traffic in Turkish ports to and from Italy was 11.4 million tons (+7.3%), with only one containerized traffic that was equal to 182,763 TEUs (+32.2%).

In the first nine months of 2025, total freight traffic in Turkish ports was 409.7 million tons, with an increase of +3.0% over the same period of the previous year year. The traffic volume with Italy alone was 35.4 million tons (+6.5%), with container traffic that result of 495,826 TEUs (+4.4%).