In the first eight months of 2024, freight traffic in the port of Barcelona was 47.7 million tonnes, with a increase of +11.4% over the same period of last year. In the container sector alone, traffic was equal to 2,660,122 TEUs (+22.1%). The Port Authority of the port announced today that containers full of import and grew by +4.0% and +5.2% respectively, while full containers in transit have significantly increased of +41.3%, a substantial increase that the port authority has attributed to the strength of the productive fabric of the hinterland of Barcelona but also to the reorganization of containerized maritime services due to the Red Sea crisis.

Liquid bulk traffic, with 9.4 million tons, increased by +11.0%, while the of dry bulk cargo, with 3.0 million tonnes, suffered a decrease of -10.7%. In the automotive segment, traffic is 467,590 cars (-12.0%).

In the period January-August of this year, the traffic of ferry passengers in the Catalan port was 1.3 million people (+0.8%), while cruise passengers were 2.3 million (+4.9%).