According to the data by Directorate General of Merchant Marine Statistics Information System, the port where the freight handling activities were carried out most during the first 9 months of 2014 is Istanbul Ambarlı. According to the data by Directorate General of Merchant Marine Statistics Information System, number of vessels docking Turkish ports decreased by 5.7 percent receding to 6,909 in September 2014. Considering the data for the first 9 months of 2014, it is observed that total number of the vessels docking the ports were 56,771. Freight of 2 million 620 thousand TEU was handled at the Istanbul Ambarlı Port during the first 9 months of 2014, and the port ranked first in this sense.