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To November the traffic of the container in the port of Barcelona has grown of +57.5%
In the first eleven months of this year +33.7% are enlivened 2,7 million teu ()
December 14, 2017
The Harbour Authority of Barcelona has announced that last month the containerized trade enlivened from the port of the Catalan city has recorded an increase of +57.5%, the elevated increment more in the course of 2017, year in which the traffic of the containers it has marked increases salaries to two figures with the exception of April.
In the first eleven months of this year the Spanish port has enlivened altogether 2,7 million teu, with a progression of +33.7% on the containerized trade enlivened in the same period of 2016. An important part of this rise is attributable to the traffic of transhipment, that an increment of +142% has shown, but has turned out also in sensitive increase is the container in import, than in the period January-November of the 2017 they have been pairs to 521.423 teu (+9%), is those in export, that they have totaled 649,645 teu (+4.1%).
Totally in the first eleven months of this year the port has enlivened 56,2 million tons of goods, with an increase of +26% on the correspondent period of 2016 (in the single month of November 2017 the traffic has grown of +48.5%). The liquid bulk is piled to 13,1 million tons (+25%), with increments particularly consisting of natural gas (+60.4%), of gasolines (+29.7%) and chemicals (+25.7%). The solid bulk has recorded an increase of +3.3% going up altogether to 4,1 million tons. In the segment of the rotabili the traffic has been pairs to 367.455 intermodal transportation units (+6.4%), with 133.900 uti (+7.2%) totaled by the freeways of the sea that connect Barcelona with the Italian ports (Civitavecchia, Genoa, Livorno, Savona and Porto Torres) and those North Africans (Tangeri, Nador, Tunisia, Algeri and Mostagamen).
In the first eleven months of the 2017 traffic of the passengers it has been of 3,9 million people (+3.7%). In the field of the ferries the traffic has grown of +11.5% to 1,3 million passengers, while in the section of the cruises he has remained stable being it are of 2,59 million passengers.
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