Independent journal on economy and transport policy
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In the first half of the 2014 traffic of the goods in the Spanish ports it has grown of +4.3%
In the field of the container they are enlivened more than seven million than teu (+8%)
August 13, 2014
The Spanish ports have parted behind a 2013 characterized from ten months in which the traffic of the goods it has turned out decreasing and from two single months of light increase and have begun this year with six consecutive months of increase of the enlivened volumes. In the first half of this year the traffic is piled totally to 233,7 million tons of goods, with a progression of +4.3% regarding 224,1 million tons totaled from the Spanish ports in the first half last year.
The total increment of the traffic is produced by the increase of +10.2% of the bulk sand banks, for 40 million tons in more regarding the first six months of the 2013 graces mainly to the rise of the volumes of coal, concrete and feeds, and from the increase of +3.7% of the liquid bulk, in increase of +3.7%. In increase (+3%) also the goods several, than with a total of beyond 109 million tons constitutes the main section of traffic of the Spanish ports, and rotabili (+7%). .
The greater total volume of traffic is enlivened by the port of Algeciras with beyond 48,6 million tons (+11.6%), followed from Valencia with 33,2 million tons (+0.5%) and from Barcelona with 22,5 million tons (+6.7%).
In the field of the passengers the traffic has been of 11,7 million people (+0.5%), of which 3,2 million crocieristi (+3.7%).
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