Passenger traffic at Croatia's seaports up 3.4% y/y in Jan-Sept

Cargo traffic of the Croatian Adriatic ports stood at almost 17.9 million tonnes in the January-September period and was unchanged compared to the same period of last year, the Croatian Bureau of Statistics said in a quarterly report. Ship arrivals numbered 287,750 in the period under review, up 2.9% on the year.

Alone in the third quarter, passenger traffic at the Croatian Adriatic ports increased 0.9% on the year to 18.3 million passengers.

The total traffic of goods in the third quarter of 2023 amounted to 5.8 million tonnes, up 3.5% on the year. Its growth was driven mostly by a 4.8% annual increase in traffic of liquid goods, which accounted for 48% of the total traffic of goods. Traffic of dry bulk goods went up 4.0% and it had a share of 29% in the total traffic of goods. Traffic of containerised goods, in tonnes, increased 0.9% and its share in the total traffic of goods equalled 17%.

The port in Bakar registered the highest annual increase,17%, in traffic of goods at the seaports in the July-September period of 2023, followed by the ports in Split (11.6%), Omisalj (5.3%), and Rijeka (0.4%), while the port in Ploce reported an 8.2% drop in traffic. These five ports accounted for 92% of the total traffic of goods in seaports in the third quarter of this year.

Ship arrivals in the third quarter of this year rose 0.2% year-on-year to 140,195.