In the first half of the 2015 Spanish ports records of 244,6 million tons of goods (+3.6% have enlivened a semiannual traffic)



In the first half of this year the Spanish ports have recorded a new semiannual record of traffic having had enlivened 244,6 million tons of goods, with a progression of +3.6% regarding 236,0 million tons enlivened in the first six months of 2014. The precedence record was established in the first semester of 2008 with the 242,5 million one tons.

The increment totaled in the first semester of 2015 is produced mainly by the increase of +10.1% of the solid bulk, than they have been attested 45,2 million to tons, and of the liquid bulk, that they are piled to 82,4 million tons. More content, instead, the increase of the volumes of several goods that have been pairs to a total of 110,7 million tons (+1.0%), of which 32,9 million tons of goods conventional (+3.0%) and 77,8 million tons of goods in container (+0.2%) realized with a handling of containers pairs to 6.949.012 teu (- 1.3%), of which beyond 3,6 million teu of container in transfer (- 5.1%), 2,5 million teu of import and export (+3.6%) and 822 thousand teu of national traffic (+2.2%).

The greater volume of total traffic is enlivened by the port of Algeciras with 47,3 million tons (- 3.1%) followed from Valencia with 35,7 million tons (+7.9%), from Barcelona with 22,8 million tons (+1.4%) and from Tarragona with 16,2 million tons (+12.5%).

In the field of the passengers, the traffic of the ferries has been of 11,7 million people, with a decrease of the -2,3% regarding the first half of 2014. In the segment of the cruises a new record with a total of 3.545.067 passengers and an increase of +8.7% is recorded record than compared to the previous more 3,2 million crocieristi established last year.

In the section of the cruises, the single Spanish ports of the Mediterranean have enlivened beyond two million crocieristi, pairs to 57.8% of the national total of first semester 2015, with four destinations - Barcelona, Balearic Islands, Malaga and Valencia - on which 96% of the crocieristico traffic have been centralized having enlivened 1,96 million passengers. The ports of the Canarian Islands, in which 31.6% of the national total have been concentrated (1.118.945 crocieristi), have continued to increase their market share, while the ports of the Atlantic (excluded the Canaries) have represented 10.6% of the national total having had enlivened 375 781 passengers.