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Twenty-seven consecutive months of increase of the traffic of the goods in the Spanish ports
In the first trimester of the 2016 tons (+5.3% are enlivened 124,4 million)
May 16, 2016
To March 2016 the Spanish ports have marked 27th the consecutive month of increase of the traffic of the goods. In the first trimester of the 2016 harbour ports of call of the Iberian nation they have enlivened altogether 124,4 million tons of goods, with an increase of +5.3% regarding 118,1 million tons in the first three months last year.
In the first three months of this year the goods several has recorded an increment of +5.7% attesting itself to 56,0 million tons, of which 40,1 million containerized tons of goods (+7.7%) pairs to 3.534.348 teu (+4.5% totaled with a handling of containers) and 16,0 million conventional tons of goods (+3.9%). In increase also the volumes of traffic of the liquid bulk and those solid ones that is piled respective to 41,8 million tons (+4.0%) and 23,3 million tons (+6.7%).
In the field of the passengers the traffic has been of 5,2 million people (+7.7%). In increase the traffic of the passengers of the ferries, that it has been of beyond four million unit (+9.5%), while that of the crocieristi is diminished of the -6,6% to beyond 1,2 million passengers.
According to governmental agency Puertos of the Estado, the national ports could close entire 2015 with a new record of traffic of the goods of beyond 513 million tons, exceeding the precedence record established with last year 502,1 million tons. Moreover Puertos of the Estado confides also in a rise of the traffic of the crocieristi, so much so that - second the agency - a new than 8,6 million more fleeting record with regarding the record of 8,4 million passengers reached in 2015 could also it mark this year.
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