In the first three months of 2026, the port of Palermo handled 1.82 million tons of goods, with a decrease of -6.3% on the first quarter of 2025 which, as in the last quarter of last year, year, was determined by the contraction in the volumes of loads in all the main product segments. In addition, the contraction in traffic was generated by the reduction in -16.7% of goods at embarkation which amounted to 650 thousand tons, while those at the landing recorded a slight increase of +0.6% to 1.17 million tons.

In the main traffic segment, that of rolling stock, in the first quarter of this year were moved 1.73 million tonnes (-1.3%) More marked declines in both liquid bulk cargo, which totaled 72 thousand tons of refined petroleum products (-37.0%), and dry bulk cargo which amounted to 20 thousand tons (-38%). After the transfer to the port of Termini Imerese of the container traffic that in the first three months of 2026 in Palermo was amounted to 45 thousand tons, this commodity item was zeroed.

In the first quarter of 2026 in Palermo, it was Ferry passenger traffic also decreased, which was 184 thousand units (-6.8%), while traffic increased by +7.0% to 144 thousand passengers, of which 27 thousand at disembarkation/embarkation (+27.3%) and 117 thousand in transit (+3,2%).

Among the other ports administered by the System Authority Port of the Western Sicilian Sea, in the first three months of this year the port of Termini Imerese has moved 298 thousand tons of goods (-22.6%), the port of Trapani 139 thousand tons (-2.4%), the port of Porto Empedocle 186 thousand (+55.0%), the port of Gela 369 thousand (+30.6%) and the port of Licata 31 thousand tons (-21.6%).