New absolute semiannual record of traffic for the port of Barcelona



Thanks to the three records recorded absolute salaries of traffic in the first half of this year, first to February, exceeded then from the total of March and therefore from the volume of enlivened traffic of beyond 5,3 million teu to May, in the first semester of the 2017 port of Barcelona it has established the own new absolute record of semiannual traffic with a total of 28,1 million tons of goods enlivened and an increment of +18.5% regarding the first six months last year.

Consisting the rise of the goods several that is piled to 19,4 million tons (+25.1%). The single traffic of goods containerized has been pairs to 13,7 million tons (+36.1%) and is realized with a handling of containers pairs to 1.365.711 teu (+27.2%), important increments that are produced mainly by the increase of the caused traffic of transhipment from strikes of the slid months that they have reduced the activity above all in the other main Spanish ports of Algeciras and Valencia. In the first six months of this year the traffic of the container in import-export in the port of Barcelona has been pairs to 944 thousand teu (+9.2%, with a +4.5% of it disembarks of full container full and a +4.7% of in transit embark of container) and that to 421 thousand teu (+101.4%). The traffic of the other goods several is gone up of +4.7% to 5,7 million tons, while that of the new motors vehicle of factory is dropped of the -8,7% to 436 thousand vehicles.

In the first half of 2017 the traffic of the liquid bulk has grown also that has been attested 6,7 million to tons (+10.9%), of which 5,4 million tons of hydrocarbons (+13.9%) and 1,2 million tons of other liquid bulk (- 0.5%) between which 516 thousand tons of chemicals (+0.1%), 429 thousand tons of oils and fat people (+30.5%), 202 thousand tons of biocombustibili (- 30.6%), 42 thousand produced tons of other oil (- 26.8%) and 41 thousand tons of natural and artificial fertilizers (+27.6%).

The total volume of the bulk sand banks instead is diminished of -7,1% to the 2,1 million one tons, between which 749 thousand tons of seeds of soybean (+0.4%), 564 thousand tons of concrete and clinker (- 16.7%), 306 thousand tons of potash (+12.3%), 173 thousand tons of cereals and flours (- 21.3%), 120 thousand tons of scrap irons (+11.6%), 58 thousand tons of salt (+102.9%), 51 thousand tons of feeds and it feed (- 7.9%), 31 thousand tons of other not metallic minerals (- 46.0%) and 14 thousand tons of other minerals and metallic refusals (- 29.1%).

In the field of the passengers people (+5.3% are enlivened almost 1,6 million), of which 1,0 million crocieristi (+1.9%) and 537 thousand fleeting of ferries (+12.4%).