After a marked increase of +11.0% recorded in 2024, had led to a new record, in 2025 the port of Gioia Tauro marked an even more significant increase in traffic containerized which has again reached an all-time high of 4,490,566 TEUs handled, with a growth of +14.0% on the year previous. Commenting on the new record, the Authority's president of Port System of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas, Paolo Piacenza, highlighted that "2025 confirms the centrality of of the Port of Gioia Tauro in international maritime traffic".

He emphasized that the port of Gioia Tauro is "the only Gateway for mega container ships that ply the routes transoceanic routes to reach Italy", the port authority has remarked that Gioia Tauro manages 40% of the handling of the international goods in the domestic market thanks to the depth of its seabed (the only one in Italy at -18 meters), to its high infrastructure and, last but not least, to the centrality of its location between the Suez Canal and the Strait of Gibraltar. In addition The Authority specified that the port has demonstrated in 2025 that it brilliantly able to cope with the various challenges posed both by by the market and by the global political scenario, overcoming the Difficulties generated by the consequences of the European directive ETS and the Red Sea crisis.