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The port of Barcelona has set its own new record of semi-annual container traffic
In the first half of 2022, 1.8 million teu was exceeded for the first time
July 22, 2022
In the second quarter of this year the Spanish port of call handled a total of 17.8 million tonnes of loads, with a progression of +9.8% over the corresponding period of 2021. In the field of miscellaneous goods, containerized cargoes are piled to 10,1 million tons (+8.1%) with a container handling that amounted to 928 thousand teu (+4.8%), of which 496 thousand teu in import-export (-1.2%) and 431 thousand teu in transit (+12.7%), while conventional goods have totaled 3.0 million tons (+8.2%). Liquid bulk increased by +26.9% rising to almost 3.5 million tons, while dry bulk decreased by -11.3% to 1.1 million Tons. If in the passenger sector the activity of the ferries showed a clear recovery of +134.6% with 360 thousand passengers, the activity in the cruise segment, almost stops with less than 3 thousand passengers in the second quarter of 2021 to due to the pandemic, it recorded 578 thousand passengers.
The new overall traffic record achieved in the first semester of 2022 was generated by the new historical peak of the six-monthly containerized traffic that stood at 19,4 million tons (+2.0%) with a handling of containers that has been pairs to 1,8 million teu (+0.7%), of of which 993 thousand in import-export (-1.0%) and 811 thousand in transit (+2.9%). In the first six months of this year, conventional goods have attested to 5.8 million tons (+9.7%), liquid bulk to 7.9 million tons (+42.8%) and solid bulk to 2.3 million of tons (+3.2%). The handling of cars is was 249 thousand vehicles (-13.0%). In the field of ferries the traffic has been of 520 thousand passengers (+118.2%) and in that of cruises of 670 thousand passengers (+23,424.2%).
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In the second quarter of this year the Spanish port of call handled a total of 17.8 million tonnes of loads, with a progression of +9.8% over the corresponding period of 2021. In the field of miscellaneous goods, containerized cargoes are piled to 10,1 million tons (+8.1%) with a container handling that amounted to 928 thousand teu (+4.8%), of which 496 thousand teu in import-export (-1.2%) and 431 thousand teu in transit (+12.7%), while conventional goods have totaled 3.0 million tons (+8.2%). Liquid bulk increased by +26.9% rising to almost 3.5 million tons, while dry bulk decreased by -11.3% to 1.1 million Tons. If in the passenger sector the activity of the ferries showed a clear recovery of +134.6% with 360 thousand passengers, the activity in the cruise segment, almost stops with less than 3 thousand passengers in the second quarter of 2021 to due to the pandemic, it recorded 578 thousand passengers.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
