Last March, Croatian ports set a new record monthly traffic history of goods having handled a total of 2.54 million tonnes, up +49.0% on the previous year. March 2025. The new historical peak was determined by the ever highest volume of unloaded goods that are amounted to 1.94 million tonnes (+62.6%), while those at embarkation they totaled 601 thousand tons (+17.4%). In addition, The monthly record was reached thanks to the new peak volume of liquid bulk cargo at 1.54 million tons (+103.4%) mainly thanks to the landings of products energy equal to 1.13 million tons of energy products (+172.2%) to the port of Omisalj (Castelmuschio) connected to the JANAF pipeline and home to the LNG Croatia terminal, and to the new maximum peak of containerized goods, up +41.0% to 622 thousand tons with a container handling like new Record of 69,626 TEUs (+44.1%), with a record traffic of 66,248 TEUs in the port of Rijeka alone (+45.6%).

In the first quarter of 2026, the total traffic of goods in Croatia's ports was 5.51 million tons, with an increase of +14.6% over the same period of last year, of which 4.03 million tonnes of cargo to the unloading (+20.9%) and 1.47 million tons of cargo at embarkation (+0,4%). With the exception of dry bulk cargo, which recorded a decrease of -36.1% with a total traffic of 615 thousand tons, other types of goods increased, with the liquid bulk goods of 2.75 million tonnes (+14.4%), in containers equal to 1.63 million tons (+52.5%) with a container handling of 184,682 TEUs (+58.5%), and with the rolling stock equal to 52 thousand tons (+45.8%).

In the first three months of this year, cruise passenger traffic in the Croatian ports was 31 thousand people (+84.8%) and that of the passengers on regular maritime services of 3.23 million people (+2,6%).