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In the fourth trimester of 2021 the containerized traffic of transhipment in Spanish ports has fallen of -11.3%
Altogether last year the ports of call of the Iberian nation have enlivened 544,5 million tons of goods (+5.6%)
February 4, 2022
In 2021 passenger traffic in Spanish ports is state of almost 18 million people (+34.7%), of which 2.2 million cruise passengers (+61.6%).
Compared to the pre-pandemic year of 2019, overall traffic enlivened by Spanish ports in 2021 is down by -3.5%. With the sole exception of containerized cargo, which has grown in +1.7% on 2019 in terms of tons and +1.2% in terms of teu, all other types of goods have decreased: goods conventional fell by -1.3%, liquid bulk by -8.6% and the solid ones of -6.4%. With regard to passengers, the contraction was -52.2%, with a decrease of -79.3% of the sun cruise passengers.
In the fourth quarter of 2021 alone, the total traffic of goods was 139.8 million tons, with a progression of +4.6% on the period October-December of the year previous. The only commodity item to have marked a decline was that of containers with 49.2 million tons of loads (-6.4% on 2020) for a handling of containers from 20' pari a 4.433.877 teu (-2.5%), reduction that was generated by the decrease of -11.3% of containerized traffic of transhipment which was equal to 2,295,865 teu, while the containerized volumes in import-export and domestic ones have shown increases of +6.7% and +17.6% respectively having been equal to 1,584,801 teu and 553,204 teu. In the field of goods conventional traffic was 20.5 million tons (+15.7%). Liquid and dry bulk are piled up respectively to 44,6 million tons (+11.9%) and 22,0 million of tons (+4.8%).
In the last quarter of last year the traffic of the passengers was over 5.5 million units (+139.0%), of which almost 1.4 million cruise passengers (+1,740.1%).
Comparing the data of the traffic of goods handled by the Spanish ports in the fourth quarter of 2021 with those of the same period of 2019 there is an increase of +2.5% in volumes total, with container loads growing by +5.5% in tons and +4.0% in teu and with conventional goods up by +5.5%. On the other hand, liquid bulk is decreasing (-0.2%) and solid bulk (-1.6%).
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In 2021 passenger traffic in Spanish ports is state of almost 18 million people (+34.7%), of which 2.2 million cruise passengers (+61.6%).
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
