In October 2023, the decline in the traffic of goods handled by the port of Barcelona that has been in place since the beginning of this year continued : the Catalan port handled a total of 5.3 million tonnage, with a slight decline of -0.7% on October of last year. The decrease was modest thanks to the 9.1% percent rise in liquid bulk bulk, which was 1.2 million tonnes. The miscellaneous goods, with 3.8 million tonnes, recorded a -2.2% reduction determined by the contraction of the goods in containers, found to be 2.9 million tonnes (-1.3%) with an eventful handling of containers that it has totaled 272mila teu (-0.4%), both of conventional goods that amounted to 909mila tons (-4.7%). In addition, the solid bulk with 345mila tonnes (-13.3%) was also declining. In the passenger sector, the cruise traffic was 467mila persons (+ 25.7%) and that of the ferries of 104mila (+ 11.9%).

Last month, the total traffic in goods handled by the port of Algeciras was also decreased to nine million tonnes (-4.0%), including 4.9 million tonnes of containerized goods (-3.9%) carried out with an eventful handling of containers equal to 412mila teu (-3.0%).

In the first ten months of 2023, the port of Barcelona globally handled 52.0 million tons of cargo, with a -10.3% percent decline on the same period last year. The only traffic in the containers amounted to 2.7 million teu (-9.9%). In Algeciras the overall traffic of goods was 87.3 million tonnes (-3.7%) and that of containers of almost four million teu (-1.1%).