In the third quarter of this year, Croatian ports 5.57 million tons of goods handled, with a decrease of -4.4% over the same period of 2024, of which 4.24 million tons of cargo at unloading (-4.9%) and 1.32 million tons at embarkation (-3.0%). The overall reduction in traffic was determined by the decrease in the volumes of liquid bulk and solid bulk that were found to be equal to respectively to 2.83 million tons (-4.0%) and 966 thousand tons (-30.5%). Containerized goods are growing sharply with 1.31 million tons (+22.1%) made with a handling of containers equal to 144,484 TEUs (+18.2%), so such as rolling stock with 71 thousand tons (+22.7%) and other goods miscellaneous with 386 thousand tons (+9.3%).

In the period July-September 2025, passenger traffic of scheduled maritime services in Croatian ports is 17.43 million people (-1.5%) and that of cruise passengers of 761 thousand people (+7.8%).

In the first nine months of 2025, total freight traffic amounted to 15.82 million tonnes (-0.8%), of which 8.00 million tonnes of liquid bulk (+10.7%), 2.86 million tonnes tonnes of dry bulk (-35.5%), 3.71 million tonnes of container loads (+19.8%) made by handling 398,891 TEUs (+18.6%), 165 thousand tons of rolling stock (+9.5%) and 1.08 million tons of tonnes of other conventional goods (+4.8%). Passengers in the scheduled services were 30.04 million (-0.2%) and cruise passengers 1.26 million (+6.4%).