From the official data
Port Cargo and Exports: Official Volumes
According to the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, Turkish ports handled 553,268,303 tonnes in 2025; the İskenderun Regional Port Authority handled 70,905,737 tonnes, third after Aliağa (89,507,150 tonnes) and Kocaeli (83,939,975 tonnes). In the Ministry of Trade's exports-by-province-of-activity table, Hatay ranked 11th in 2023 with USD 5,170 million.
| Indicator | Value | Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| İskenderun Regional Port Authority: cargo handled (tonnes) | 70,905,737 | 2025 | [1] |
| Türkiye total port cargo (tonnes) | 553,268,303 | 2025 | [1] |
| İskenderun's share of the national total | 12.8% | 2025 | [1] |
| Hatay exports by province of activity (USD million) | 5,856 | 2022 | [2] |
| Hatay exports (USD million; annual change −11.7%) | 5,170 | 2023 | [2] |
| Share of Türkiye's exports (Türkiye: USD 255,809 million) | 2.0% | 2023 | [2] |
| Hatay exports, single month (USD million; +11.9%) | 505 → 565 | Sep 2024 → Sep 2025 | [3] |
What does this data mean for an investor?
The İskenderun Regional Port Authority handles 12.8% of the cargo moved through Turkish ports and trails only Aliağa and Kocaeli. This volume shows that Hatay remained one of the country's main cargo gateways even after the earthquake. Hatay's exports fell 11.7% in 2023 to USD 5,170 million; in September 2025 monthly exports rose +11.9% on the same month of the previous year. A single month does not prove an annual recovery; the annual 2024–2025 figures are not in this compilation.
What it means for an investor: port and export volumes are the most concrete official gauges of the scale of demand for warehousing, bonded areas, logistics centres and export-oriented production. But how much of the port tonnage is cargo produced in or destined for Hatay, as opposed to transit, cannot be separated from these data; cargo type and country breakdowns should be queried separately before investing.
Limitation: The port figure is the sum of all ports under the İskenderun Regional Port Authority and has no cargo-type or country breakdown. The export table is based on place of production (province of activity), which differs from head-office-based tables. Annual provincial exports for 2024 and 2025 (the Ministry's relevant file could not be accessed) and the sector breakdown of exports are not in this compilation; September 2025 is a single-month figure.
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Sources
- [1] Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, port cargo-handling record announcement (2025; 31 January 2026) (data period: 2025)
- [2] Ministry of Trade, Exports by Province of Activity (annual table, 2022–2023) (data period: 2022–2023)
- [3] Ministry of Trade, Exports by Province of Activity, September 2025 (data period: September 2025)