In the third quarter of this year, Albanian ports marked New historical records of both freight and passenger traffic thanks to flows that have never been so consistent recorded in the months of the summer just ended. In the goods sector alone, the July-September period of 2025 was archived with a 2.25 million tonnes of cargo, with a total of 2.25 million tonnes of cargo, Progression of +16.7% over the third quarter of 2024, of which more than 2.13 million tons handled by the port of Durres alone (+17,4%). The new quarterly historical peak was achieved thanks to the absolute monthly record totaled last year month of August with 832 thousand tons as well as volumes in the past months of August and September, the levels of which were the sixth and ninth highest respectively of all time.

The new historical record of passenger traffic is established in the period July-September of this year with a total of 1.01 million people (+6.4%) and was achieved thanks to the monthly historical record of 507 thousand passengers last August and the new records relating to the months of July and September, which this year closed with volumes of traffic equal to 288 thousand and 216 thousand passengers respectively.

In the first nine months of 2025, total freight traffic was over 6.09 million tons, with a growth by +6.2% over the same period last year, while traffic of passengers was 1.47 million (+6,6%).