In the first three months of 2026, freight traffic in ports was 73.2 million tonnes, with a increase of +3.8% compared to the first quarter of last year, of which 47.0 million tonnes of cargo at landing (+0.2%) and 26.2 million tonnes million tonnes at embarkation (+11.0%). In the field of a total of 28.8 million goods were handled. tonnes (+4.3%), of which 13.3 million tonnes of goods containerized (+7.4%) made with a handling of containers equal to almost 1.5 million TEUs (+8.6%) and 14.2 million TEUs tons of rolling stock (+1.2%). Growth more pronounced of dry bulk cargo amounted to 12.3 million tonnes (+14.7%), while liquid bulk cargo remained stable as it was amounted to 32.1 million tonnes (-0.3%).

Among the main national ports by global volume of traffic, in the first quarter of this year, the Haropa port system (ports of call of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris) moved 21.1 million tons of goods (+6.8%), of which 7.7 million tons of goods in containers (+7.3%), 91 thousand tons of rolling stock (-8.9%), 192 thousand tons of other miscellaneous goods (-26.0%), 3.4 million tons of dry bulk (+22.4%) and 9.7 million tons of liquid bulk (+2.8%).

This is followed by the port of Marseille-Fos which in the first three months of the 2026 handled 17.7 million tons of cargo (-2.9%), of which 3.7 million tonnes of containerised goods (+10.5%), 1.1 million tons of rolling stock (+1.3%), 340 thousand tons of other miscellaneous goods (+26.4%), 1.5 million tonnes of bulk cargo (-17.6%) and 11.1 million tonnes of liquid bulk (-5,6%).

The third largest quarterly traffic volume is was handled by the port of Dunkirk which totaled 13.1 million tons (+12.3%). Then follow the port of call of Calais with 10.0 million tonnes (+2.4%), Nantes Saint-Nazaire with 7.1 million tons (-0.2%), of La Rochelle with 2.2 million tons (+13.2%) and Bordeaux with 1.5 million tons of tons (-3.1%).