The port of Valencia has closed 2017 with new records in the containerized fields of the goods, conventional cargos and the passengers



In the 2017 port of Valencia it has enlivened a traffic anniversary record of 67,5 million tons of goods, with an increment of +4.6% regarding 2016 when the precedence was established historical record with 64,5 million tons. In the field of the container the traffic is gone up to the quota record 55,5 million tons and is totaled with a handling of containers record pairs to 4.779.749 teu, with increases respective of +4.1% and +2.3% regarding the precedence records obtained in 2016. The other goods several pairs to 8,5 million tons have been and also this is a new peak maximum anniversary for the Spanish port and represents a rise of +5.3% on the previous record marked in 2016. More consisting, even if such not to reach levels record, has turned out the increment of the traffic of the bulk, with cargos liquids that are increased of +24.7% to 1,6 million grown tons and those solid ones of +15.4% 1,6 million to tons. Handling of new cars of factory has been of 524 thousand vehicles (- 10.1%).

Last year the traffic of the passengers in the Spanish port is gone up to the quota record of beyond a million people (+13.1% on the record of 2016), with the new maximum peaks is in the segment of the fleeting cruises with 412 thousand (+2.2%) is in that of the fleeting ferries with 617 thousand (+21.7%).

In the 2017 entire managed harbour system from the Harbour Authority of Valencia, constituted from the ports of call of Valencia, Sagunto and Gandía, it has enlivened a total record of 73,6 million tons of goods, with a progression of +2.9% on the year precedence, of which 5,7 million tons enlivened from the port of Sagunto (- 13.3%) and 354 thousand tons from the port of Gandía (+0.4%).

While the port of Barcelona has begun 2018 recording an increment of +54.1% of the traffic of the goods having enlivened in the first month of the year 5,5 million tons regarding 3,6 million tons in January 2017. The data last month represents the new record of traffic enlivened from the Catalan port of call in January (the precedence record goes back to January 2011) and turns out inferior only to the record recorded absolute salary 2017 with in July 5,7 million enlivened tons.

The exceptional increase last month of the traffic in the port of Barcelona is generated by the prosecuzione of the strong increase of the volumes enlivened in particular in the fields of the container, with an important rise of the which reshipped number of container from a ship to another in the harbour port of call, and of the liquid bulk. In the first section the traffic is piled almost 2,9 million tons (+64.7%) and is realized with a container handling pairs to 267.596 teu (+48.3%), of which 158,564 in import and export (+12.3%) and 109,032 in transit (+177.7%), and in the segment of the liquid bulk the total has been of 1,4 million tons (+52.4%), of which 1,2 million tons of hydrocarbons (+66.8%) and 185 thousand tons of other cargos (- 3.0%). In decided increase also the solid bulk traffic that last month has attested to 438 thousand tons (+120.7%). Handling of new cars has been pairs to 61 thousand unit (+12.1%).

Last month the traffic of the passengers in the port of Barcelona has been of 150 thousand people (+38.8%), of which 91 thousand in the section of cruises (+60.1%) and 60 thousand in that of ferries (+15.4%).