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The port of Algeciras has closed 2018 with new records of the container, the goods conventional and the liquid bulk
The containers have been pairs to 4.772.415 teu (+8.7%). Record also of the passengers
February 1, 2019
In the 2018 port of Algeciras it has enlivened a volume of traffic of the goods pairs to 107,1 million tons that the new record constitutes historical anniversary of the Spanish port of call and an increment of +5.1% on 2017 and of +3.9% on the previous record established in 2016.
The new peak maximum anniversary is obtained thanks to the new record of containerized trade that has turned out such is in terms of weight, with a total of 60,6 million tons (+5.2%), than of which counted traffic in terms of unit from 20 ' (teu) enlivened, turned out pairs to 4.772.415 teu (+8.7%), records that had been both recorded previously in 2016.
The achieved record last year is yields also of the new maximum liquid bulk peak, that records of 2017 have totaled 31,7 million tons with an increase of +10.3% on the previous, and of the new historical peak of conventional traffic of goods, than record of 2017 has been attested almost 8,5 million to tons with a rise of +7.8% on the previous.
Only bending that of the solid bulk that last year is piled to 1,7 million tons (- 18.3%).
In the 2018 traffic of the passengers of the ferries in the Spanish port it has been of 5,9 million people, since she represents also the new record historical anniversary (the precedence was of a 2016) and increment of +7.5% on 2017.
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