The main figures recorded in the first half of the year by the Türkiye-Europe Sea Highway along all its routes are now available.
After two consecutive record years in 2021 and 2022, the first semester of 2023 ends with decreasing numbers for the Türkiye-Europe Sea Highway, in line with the general trend for ports and shipping in Europe.
Our flagship multimodal system currently offers the following schedule:
Pendik 7 calls/week
Çeşme 3 calls/week
Mersin 3 calls/week
Patras (stopover) 2 calls/week
Bari (stopover) 2 calls/week
Statistics for the first half of the year show these volumes and comparisons:
Adding a note on the number of trains handled at the rail terminal managed by Samer Seaports & Terminals, we can also see negative results in the number of train arrivals and departures, mainly due to rising energy costs and the saturation of the German rail network where most of our trains run. That resulted in the cancellation of some rail connections.
In the whole shipping context, such negative conditions were already forecast at the end of last year, after the above-mentioned skyrocketing figures linked first to the booming shipping period after the lockdown era, later by the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine.
In the short-medium term indeed, the unsafety of the Black Sea and the general uncertainty paved the way for rapid and large increase in traffic flows in the whole Mediterranean and Europe. However, today ports and the shipping industry are suffering, like the entire economy, from the negative effects of such war, reduction in consumption, inflation and the swift increase in interest rates.
Due to as much, the whole port of Trieste is experiencing such expected downturn, even though the outlook towards the end of 2023 shows some signs of recovery, and also both our ship owners’ forecasts agree with those projections.
