Last year, Croatian ports handled 20.94 million tons of goods, with a slight increase of +0.4% on 2024, of which 15.03 million tons of cargo at unloading (-1.5%) and 5.91 million tons at embarkation (+5.7%). The decrease overall traffic was generated by the sharp drop in the -31.7% of dry bulk cargo fell to 3.84 million tons. The Liquid bulk cargo increased by +7.6% to 10.27 million tons. Various goods are also growing with record traffic 5.12 million tonnes of containerised goods (+22.8%) made with a record container handling of 551,996 TEUs (+1.7%), of which 512,891 TEUs handled by the port alone of Rijeka (+2.2%), and with a rolling stock traffic of 216 thousand tons (+11.3%).

In 2025, passenger traffic in Croatian ports is 36.1 million people (-0.3%), with traffic in the Cruises record of 1.56 million passengers (+4.8%) and with 34.48 million passengers million passengers on regular services (-0.5%).

In the fourth quarter of 2025 alone, the total number of goods handled by national ports was 5.12 million tons, with an increase of +4.4% over the same period of the previous year, of which 3.37 million tonnes at landing, (-2.7%) and 1.75 million tons at loading (+21.6%). In both liquid and solid bulk cargo decreased, equal to 2.27 million tons (-2.0%) and 975 thousand tons respectively tons (-17.5%). Containerized goods amounted to 1.41 million tons (+31.6%) with container handling equal to 153,105 TEUs (+35.6%), of which 143,501 TEUs handled by the port of Rijeka (+37.4%). The rolling stock stood at 48 thousand tons (+16.4%). Passenger traffic was 4.75 million units (-2.2%), of which 307 thousand cruise passengers (-1.1%) and 4.44 million passengers on regular services (-2.3%).