«New traffic record for the ports of the Sardinia System: despite the global crisis in the freight sector, 2024 closes positively in all sectors and records approximately 41 million and 700 thousand tons of goods in transit, over 6 and a half million passengers and almost 685 thousand cruise passengers».

The Authority of the Port System of the Sardinian Sea is drawing up the balance of last year's activity in the island's maritime ports.

In detail, during 2024, the following transited through Sardinian ports:

• 5,563,050 passengers in the main ports (+4.50% compared to 2023)
• 970,115 passengers in the ports of the smaller islands (+9.90%)
• 684,061 cruise passengers (+57.50%)
• 97,137 Teus containers, or containers (+77.70%)
• 41,649,701 tons of goods (+1.70%)

As for the individual ports, here is the detail of passengers in transit in 2024:

• Cagliari: 263,244
• Olbia: 3,692,857
• Gulf of Oranges: 552,016
• Port Torres: 1,029,312
• Portovesme: 719.850
• Saint Teresa: 250,265
• Arbatax: 25,621

In Cagliari, however, the largest number of cruise passengers: over 541 thousand landed at the port of the capital last year.

Here is the port-by-port breakdown of the goods:

• Cagliari: 30,105,275 tons
• Olbia: 6,399,099 tons
• Golfo Aranci: 91,611 tons
• Porto Torres: 3,083,389 tons
• Oristano 1,172,030 tons
• Portovesme: 688,704 tons
• Santa Teresa: 2,197 tons
• Arbatax: 109.59 tons

"We are closing with great satisfaction a year of intense activity for our System ports - commented Massimo Deiana, President of the AdSP of the Sea of Sardinia - 2024 represented the peak of a rapid recovery that, in just four years, filled the crisis of 2020 and exceeded, in terms of growth, the excellent results of 2019 and, last but not least, those of 2023".