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In the 2014 Spanish ports they have enlivened a traffic container record pairs to 14,2 million teu
Altogether the traffic of the goods is piled to 482,0 million tons (+5.1%), an analogous volume to that pre-crisis
February 12, 2015
In the 2014 Spanish ports they have enlivened altogether 482,0 million tons of goods, a little inferior volume that represents an increment of +5.1% regarding 458,5 million tons totaled in the year precedence and to that record of 483,1 million tons enlivened in 2007.
"The data of the harbour traffic of year-end - it has emphasized the Spanish ministry of the economic Development - confirm that 2014 are the year of the Spanish economic resumption and that is reached a peak in handling of goods in the Spanish ports. The 482 enlivened tons, with an increment of 5.12% regarding 2013, reflect the overhong of Spanish ports and pre-crises are placed on the levels".
The recorded increment last year is determined mainly by the increase of the solid bulk traffic, that they are piled to beyond 89,5 million tons, with an increase of +11.7% on 2013. This - it has found the ministry - means "that fields which the constructions (concrete), the consumption of producing agricultural (cereals, manures, feeds) and produced energetic (the coal) is to the center of the resumption that is reflected on the Spanish economy".
Sensitive (+ 6.0%) also the increase of the total liquid bulk volume that has been attested 160,9 million to tons.
More contained (+2.1%) the increase of the traffic total of the goods several that have been pairs to 217,7 million tons, of which 155,4 million containerized tons of goods (+0.9%) records totaled with a handling of containers pairs to 14,2 million teu, with a progression of +2.2% on the 2013 (precedence record were established in 2012 with 14,0 million teu) and the 62,4 million one conventional tons of goods (+5.1%).
In the field of the passengers, last year the traffic has turned out analogous to that of 2013 being is pairs to 28,7 million people, of which 7,7 million crocieristi.
In the 2014 greater volume of traffic of the goods it is enlivened by the port of Algeciras with 95,0 million tons (+4,6) followed from Valencia with 67,0 million tons (+3.1%), Barcelona with 46,3 million tons (+9.3%) and Cartagena with 32,5 million tons (+10.2%).
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