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Record of quarterly and semiannual traffic for the port of Algeciras
In the first six the 2018 months of the container has been pairs to beyond 2,3 million teu (+9.3%)
July 27, 2018
In the first part of this year the Spanish port of Algeciras has established the own new absolute records of quarterly and semiannual traffic of the goods, peak that for the quarterly period is reached graces also to the new record of conventional traffic of the goods and that for the semiannual period it is obtained thanks to the new records of containerized traffics of goods, goods conventional and liquid bulk.
In the period April-june of the 2018 volume of quarterly traffic record has been of 26,8 million tons, with an increment of +6.6% regarding the correspondent period last year (the precedence quarterly record was recorded in the fourth trimester of 2017 with the hardly 3 thousand one tons in less regarding the new record). The new quarterly maximum peak of the goods conventional has been almost 2,5 million tons (+9.5%). The goods containerized is piled to 15,6 million tons (+6.5%), traffic that is realized with a handling of containers pairs to 1,2 million teu (+6.6%). The liquid bulk has grown of +14.2% to 7,5 million tons, while those solid ones are diminished of the -1,6% to 494 thousand tons.
The new established semiannual historical record in the first half of 2018 has been of 52,9 million tons, with an increase of +7.1% on the first semester last year (the precedence record was achieved in the second half of the year of 2017). The new containerized semiannual maximum peaks of the goods, the goods conventional and the liquid bulk have been pairs respective to 30,3 million tons (+9.3%), 4,8 million tons (+9.3%) and 15,6 million tons (+14.8%). To signal that the semiannual record of containerized trade is not such if the traffic is counted in container from 20 ' (teu) enlivened, that they have turned out pairs to beyond 2,3 million teu (+9.3%), as the absolute record is marked in according to trimester of 2015 with beyond 2,4 million teu. In the first six months of this year the traffic of the solid bulk is dropped of the -10,6% to 808 thousand tons.
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In the first part of this year the Spanish port of Algeciras has established the own new absolute records of quarterly and semiannual traffic of the goods, peak that for the quarterly period is reached graces also to the new record of conventional traffic of the goods and that for the semiannual period it is obtained thanks to the new records of containerized traffics of goods, goods conventional and liquid bulk.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
