After four quarters of decline, in the period July-September of this year the traffic of goods in ports French has returned to growth having been moved 70.72 million tonnes, with an increase of +6.9% on the previous year, same quarter of 2024 which was generated by the rise in bulk volumes, with liquid ones totaling 30.91 million tonnes (+8.2%) and solid waste 12.03 million tonnes tons (+23.2%). Traffic in the freight segment stable which amounted to 27.7 (-0.2%), of which 12.50 million tons of containerized cargo (-0.6%) made with a container handling of 1.36 million TEUs (+0.2%) and 14.28 million tons of rolling stock (+0.1%).

Among the main ports by volume of traffic, in the third largest quarter of 2025 the Haropa port system, consisting of the ports of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris, moved 21.39 million tons (+7.9%), the port of Marseille 18.19 million tons (+8.2%), the port of Dunkirk 11.86 million tons (+9.8%) followed by the ports of Calais with 9.84 million tons tonnes (-0.1%), Nantes Saint-Nazaire with 5.90 million tonnes tonnes (+8.4%), La Rochelle with 2.09 million tonnes (+8.3%) and Bordeaux with 1.45 million tons (-2.9%).

In the first nine months of 2025, French ports handled 212.12 million tonnes of goods, with a An increase of +1.1% over the same period last year. The only product sector that was found to be growing was that of liquid bulk in which 94.73 were handled million tons (+4.2%). Dry bulk cargo amounted to 34.16 million tons (-1.4%). In the Miscellaneous Goods Sector the total was 83.23 million tons (-1.3%), of which 37.22 million tons of goods in containers (-0.4%) Carried out by handling 4.09 million TEUs (+3.1%) and 42.56 million TEUs tonnes of rolling stock (-2.9%).