This information comes from data on maritime passengers<\/a> published by Eurostat today. This article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article on maritime passenger statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 2024, 10 countries, each with more than 14 million passengers, accounted for 94.1% of all seaborne passenger transport in the EU.<\/p>\n Italian ports recorded 93.5 million passengers, or 22.4% of the EU total, followed closely by Greece with 81.1 million passengers (19.4%). Denmark came in third with 41.3 million passengers (9.9%).<\/p>\n Source dataset: mar_mp_aa_cph<\/p>\n Between 2019 and 2024, half of the top 10 countries recorded increases in the number of passengers. Greece gained 7.1 million passengers (+9.7%), Italy 7.0 million (+8.0%) and Malta 2.0 million (+14.9%). In contrast, the largest declines were recorded in Sweden (-5.7 million; -18.7%), Finland (-4.8 million; -25.1%) and Germany (-3.1 million; -9.8%).<\/p>\n Top 3 EU largest passenger ports were in Italy<\/p>\n The top 10 busiest EU passenger ports recorded 21.8% of the EU\u2019s seaborne passengers. These included 7 ports in the Mediterranean, 2 in the Baltic and 1 in the North-East Atlantic.<\/p>\n The 3 busiest EU passenger ports were all in Italy: Messina came first with 11.4 million passengers, followed by Reggio di Calabria (11.2 million passengers) and Napoli (11.0 million).<\/p>\n Compared with 2019, Napoli recorded the biggest increase in the number of passengers (+1.7 million; +18.5%) while Helsinki recorded the largest decrease (-2.3 million; -19.7%).<\/p>\n![\"Top](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/top-eu-countries-seaborne-passengers-2019-2024.png\")
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