The strong growth of the Container traffic in the port of Barcelona determined mainly due to the exponential increase in the number of containers in transit. Last April, containerized traffic was amounted to 340 thousand TEUs, with an increase of +34.3% on April 2023, of which 163 thousand TEUs in import and export (+7.8%) and 176 thousand TEUs in transhipment (+73.9%). In terms of weight, the container traffic amounted to 3.4 million tonnes (+28.3%). In the miscellaneous goods sector, the following were Conventional goods also grew with 1.02 million tons (+8,8%). On the other hand, bulk cargo is decreasing, with solid bulk to 314 thousand tons (-10.9%) and liquid to 1.3 million tonnes (-24.8%), including 635 thousand tonnes of hydrocarbons (-36.7%) and 393 thousand tons of other liquid bulk (+7.7%). The Last April, the total freight traffic was 5.80 million tonnes (+8.6%).

In April 2024, passenger traffic was stable, with ferry passengers decreasing by -11.6% falling to 118 thousand units while cruise passengers are increased by +5.3% to 282 thousand units.

In the first four months of this year, container traffic 1.29 million TEUs, an increase of +25.7% on the same period of 2023, of which 668 thousand TEUs in import-export (+7.2%) and 662 thousand TEUs in transhipment (+54.3%). The total traffic of the freight was 22.32 million tonnes (+8.5%).