Last month, the port of Barcelona handled 5.43 million tons of goods, with an increase of +13.5% on the February 2023. Growth has been determined the +20.6% increase in miscellaneous goods to 4.05 million tonnes, of which 3.15 million tonnes of goods containerized (+24.8%) made with a handling of containers equal to 308 thousand TEUs (+26.3%) - including 155 thousand TEUs per disembarkation/embarkation (+2.2%) and 152 thousand TEUs in transit (+66.2%) - and 898 thousand tons of conventional goods (+7.9%). The further significant increase in container volumes in transit after +20.1% recorded in January 2024 seems to confirm the contribution of traffic containerized to Spanish ports and the Moroccan port of Tanger Med caused by the geopolitical crisis in the Red Sea, which, by imposing on the maritime traffic to avoid crossing the Suez Canal, shifted scheduled services to the route around the Cape of Good Hope to get to the Strait of Gibraltar where intersecting lines connecting the with Northern Europe and North and Central America, and which in They passed through the Egyptian canal. Referring +40% increase in containerized transhipment traffic occurred in the first two months of 2024 at the Catalan airport, The Barcelona Port Authority has specified that, with regard to the origin and destination of these containers, There are different variations depending on the market, with the containerized traffic with China, which is the main commercial partner of the Port of Barcelona in this segment, which marked a decrease of -17.5% over the first two months of 2023 while Container traffic with the USA (+6.6%), Turkey (+4.6%) and Morocco (+66.6%).

In February 2024, liquid bulk traffic, with 1.02 million of tonnes, decreased by -3.9% and that of dry bulk, with 362 thousand tons, a decrease of -1.8%.

Last month, passenger traffic in the Catalan port marked an increase of +2.0% in the ferry sector with 57 thousand passengers, while the cruise industry has recorded the first decrease since the restart of operations after the Covid-19 pandemic having totalled 75 thousand cruise passengers (-5.4%).