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In the port of Valencia, the trend of growth of container traffic continues, while in Algeciras it is still declining
In May, the two Spanish port ports moved 476,000 containers respectively (+22.9%) and 405,000 containers (-0.1%)
June 30, 2021
In the first five months of 2021, the port of Valencia 32.43 million tonnes of goods, with an increase of +9.1% over the same period last year year. Container goods alone amounted to 26.86 million tonnes (+11.2%) and were made with a handling containers amounting to 2.32 million teu (+7.3%), of which 1.84 million full teu (+10.5%), including 441,000 on boarding (+12.9%), 330,000 on landing (+2.5%) and 1.07 million in transit (+12.1%), and 483,000 empty teu (-3.2%).
In May 2021, the port of Algeciras moveded 9.09 million tonnes of goods, with a slight increase of +1.1% on May 2019 2020. Containerised goods alone amounted to 5.08 million tonnes (-5.6%) with a container handling of 405,000 teu (-0.1%), of which 348,000 teu in transit (-2.2%), 30,000 landed (+21.4%) and 27,000 teu on board (+8.3%). Traffic conventional goods amounted to 1.14 million tonnes (+63.3%), that of liquid bulk at 2.40 million tonnes tonnes (-4.7%) and dry bulk traffic at 54,000 tonnes (+2.4%).
In the first five months of this year in Algeciras traffic total was 42.97 million tonnes, with a decrease of -3.7% over the same period of 2020, of which 11.08% million tons of liquid bulk (-8.2%), 291 thousand tons solid bulk (+23.9%), 5.24 million tonnes of goods conventional (+24.3%) and 24.29 million tons of cargo containerised (-8.0%) made with a handling of containers of 1.92 million teu (-8.4%), of which 1.65 million in transit (-9.0%), 130 thousand on landing (-2.3%) and 145,000 on boarding (-5,7%).
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