In the third quarter of this year, the ports administered by the Port System Authority of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea A total of 3.90 million vehicles were handled tons of goods, with an increase of +3.5% on the same period of 2025, of which 2.24 million tonnes handled by the port of Civitavecchia (-3.0%), 1.13 million tons from port of Fiumicino (+14.6%) and 530 thousand tons from the port of Gaeta (+12.4%).

The decline recorded by the port of Civitavecchia is was contained by the +11.1% increase in rolling stock to 1.56 million tons. Containerized traffic down with 231 thousand tons (-1.5%) and more marked was the reduction of bulk cargo. In the liquid bulk sector, 316 thousand tons (-18.4%) were handled, including 307 thousand tons of refined petroleum products (-20.7%) and 9 thousand tons of other cargo. Dry bulk cargo totaled 133 thousand tons (-53.0%), of which 96 thousand tons of products metallurgical, iron ore, ores and non-ferrous metals (-53.3%), 22 thousand tons of coal (+1,357.0), 3 thousand tons of minerals and building materials (-94.9%) and 12 thousand tons of other dry bulk (-13.2%).

In the period July-September of 2025 the port of Civitavecchia recorded cruise traffic of 1.38 million passengers (-4.1%), of which 718 thousand at embarkation/disembarkation (-4.1%) and 699 thousand in transit (+1.0%). Passengers on maritime services line were 873 thousand (-0.4%).

In the first nine months of this year, the three ports handled 9.97 million tons of goods globally, with a decrease by -0.7% over the corresponding period of 2024, of which 6.11 million of tons handled by the port of Civitavecchia (+1.4%), 2.50 million tons from the port of Fiumicino (-3.6%) and 1.36 million tons of tons from the port of Gaeta (-4.1%).