In the first nine months of this year, the Port of Barcelona handled over 53 million tons of goods, with a increase of +11.3% over the corresponding period of 2023. The port authority of the Catalan port has announced that the only container traffic amounted to almost three million TEU, with a strong increase of +21.4% generated - specified the institution - from the continuous significant growth in transhipments of containers in port but also by the significant increase in containers full in imports (+7.1%) and exports (+5.1%).

Traffic in the liquid bulk sector has increased by +11.2% to 10.5 million tonnes, with particular increases of petrol flows (+66.4%) and chemical products (+105.1%). In On the other hand, dry bulk cargo fell by -5.9%. In the cargo segment ro-ro, intermodal transport units have increased by +2.6% with a total of 329 thousand trucks and trailers, growth that is was driven by the increase in traffic volumes with the ports of the Balearic Islands and Italy and, above all, Tunisia, while it is the decline in traffic with Moroccan ports continued. In the new car sector, the downward trend continued, with 509 thousand vehicles handled (-13.8%), reflecting the crisis of the European automotive market.

In addition, the Catalan port authority has announced that in the period January-September of this year, passenger traffic, amounting to 4.32 million people, marked a growth of +4.2%, with a slight increase in ferry traffic (1.4 million passengers, +1.1%) and a more substantial increase in traffic of cruises (2.8 million passengers, +6.0%) produced from the double-digit increase in cruise passengers to boarding and disembarking in the port of Barcelona which has more than compensated for the reduction of cruise passengers in transit.