As a result of decreases in the volume of goods handled on the quays in the past months of July, August and even September -15.1%, -18.1% and -5.1% respectively compared to the same months of 2022, the port of Barcelona closed the entire third quarter of 2023 with a -13.1% reduction in loads handled amounted to almost 15.0 million tonnes compared to 17.2 million tonnes in the corresponding period last year, year. In the period July-September of this year, the only miscellaneous goods fell by -13.5% to 11.2 million tonnes, of which 8.3 million tonnes of containerised goods (-17.2%) made with a container handling of 837 thousand TEUs (-10.5%) - including 499 thousand import-export TEUs (-3.4%) and 338 thousand TEU in transit (-19.3%) - and 2.9 million tons of goods (-0.9%). Liquid bulk cargo is also down amounted to 2.9 million tonnes (-15.4%), of which 2.1 million tonnes tons of hydrocarbons (-18.4%) and 720 thousand tons of other loads (-4.7%). Dry bulk, on the other hand, increased by +1.4% having totaled 937 thousand tons.

In the passenger sector, traffic was 2.1 million people (+15.9%), of which almost 1.3 million cruise passengers (+29.2%) and 826 thousand ferry passengers (-0.3%).

In the first nine months of 2023, the Catalan port has moved 46.7 million tonnes, down by -11.3% compared to the same period last year. The only container traffic amounted to more than 2.4 million TEUs (-10.8%), of which 1.5 million TEUs in import-export (-2.2%) and 970 thousand TEUs in transit (-21.3%).