In the third quarter of this year, the port of Palermo handled 2.15 million tons of goods, with an increase of +3.1% over the same period of 2024, of which 1.36 million tons of cargo at unloading (+1.6%) and 797 thousand tons boarding (+5.7%). Overall growth was held back from the loss of container traffic transferred to the port of Termini Imerese, where the new Container Terminal ( of the 11th June 2025), and the -13.5% reduction in the volume of liquid bulk dropped to 130 thousand tons. In the segment of rolling stock traffic recorded an increase of +4.9% with 1.95 million tons handled. Bulk cargo is also on the rise dry with 76 thousand tons (+246.3%). In the period July-September by 2025 ferry passenger traffic in Palermo is state of 675 thousand units (-2.7%) and that of cruises of 351 thousand units (+8.8%), of which 63 thousand cruise passengers on boarding/disembarking (+2.9%) and 288 thousand in transit (+10.1%).

In the first nine months of 2025, the port of the Sicilian capital handled a total of 6.03 million tons of goods, with a Progression of +1.4% over the same period last year.

Among the other ports administered by the System Authority Port of the Western Sicilian Sea, in the first nine months of this year the port of Termini Imerese has handled a total of 1.12 million tons of goods, with a growth of +61.7% to to which the +72.2% increase in rolling stock traffic contributed 877 thousand tons, the new container traffic which was equal to 41 thousand tons and the increase in the +10.6% of the volume of dry bulk which amounted to 205 thousand tons.

In the period January-September 2025, the port of Trapani handled 558 thousand tons of goods (+25.6%), of which 274 thousand tons of rolling stock (+35.4%), 115 thousand tons of freight containerized (+30.8%), 150 thousand tons of dry bulk (+0.1%) and 19 thousand tons of liquid bulk (+385.7%). In the port of Porto Empedocle, the total traffic was 404 thousand tons of cargo (+26.8%), of which 303 thousand tons of bulk cargo dry (+25.8%) and 101 thousand tons of rolling stock (+29.8%). In the port of Gela, 1.07 million tons of refined petroleum products (-17.1%) and in the port of Licata 121 thousand tons of dry bulk (+30.5%).