diff --git a/archivers/Makefile b/archivers/Makefile
index b1e5e7ccef0c9..f94187aeed97a 100644
--- a/archivers/Makefile
+++ b/archivers/Makefile
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
     SUBDIR += brotli
     SUBDIR += bzip
     SUBDIR += bzip2
+    SUBDIR += bzip3
     SUBDIR += c-blosc
     SUBDIR += c-blosc2
     SUBDIR += cabextract
diff --git a/archivers/bzip3/Makefile b/archivers/bzip3/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7e2850dbf875d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archivers/bzip3/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+PORTNAME=	bzip3
+PORTVERSION=	1.3.1
+CATEGORIES=	archivers
+MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/kspalaiologos/${PORTNAME}/releases/download/${PORTVERSION}/
+
+MAINTAINER=	ehaupt@FreeBSD.org
+COMMENT=	Better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2
+WWW=		https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3
+
+LICENSE=	LGPL3
+LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
+
+USES=		libtool pkgconfig
+USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
+GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/archivers/bzip3/distinfo b/archivers/bzip3/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..1cb284898e202
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archivers/bzip3/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+TIMESTAMP = 1686125591
+SHA256 (bzip3-1.3.1.tar.gz) = 0361b72da62d2f2e24456be568b9e2a58b5bd0e9fd23f92d9173d1b2e3b4c3d8
+SIZE (bzip3-1.3.1.tar.gz) = 406543
diff --git a/archivers/bzip3/pkg-descr b/archivers/bzip3/pkg-descr
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..0819865311b1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archivers/bzip3/pkg-descr
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+A better, faster and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2. Features
+higher compression ratios and better performance thanks to a order-0
+context mixing entropy coder, a fast Burrows-Wheeler transform code
+making use of suffix arrays and a RLE with Lempel Ziv+Prediction pass
+based on LZ77-style string matching and PPM-style context modeling.
diff --git a/archivers/bzip3/pkg-plist b/archivers/bzip3/pkg-plist
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..3093dd6d49040
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archivers/bzip3/pkg-plist
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+bin/bunzip3
+bin/bz3cat
+bin/bz3grep
+bin/bz3less
+bin/bz3more
+bin/bz3most
+bin/bzip3
+include/libbz3.h
+lib/libbzip3.a
+lib/libbzip3.so
+lib/libbzip3.so.0
+lib/libbzip3.so.0.0.0
+libdata/pkgconfig/bzip3.pc
+man/man1/bunzip3.1.gz
+man/man1/bz3cat.1.gz
+man/man1/bz3grep.1.gz
+man/man1/bz3less.1.gz
+man/man1/bz3more.1.gz
+man/man1/bz3most.1.gz
+man/man1/bzip3.1.gz