Last month the port of Barcelona handled 5.33 million tons of goods, with a decrease of -3.7% on the November 2023. In the conventional freight sector, traffic is state of 3.64 million tons (-5.1%), of which 2.71 million tons tons of goods in containers (-6.9%) made with a handling of containers equal to 299 thousand TEUs (+6.3%) - including 185 thousand TEUs in import-export (+10.3%) and 114 thousand TEUs in transit (+0.3%) - and 931 thousand tons of conventional goods (+0.6%). The traffic of new cars was 65 thousand vehicles (-8,4%). Liquid bulk volumes fell -3.5% to 1.16 million tons, of which 844 thousand tons of hydrocarbons (-9.8%) and 317 thousand tons of other cargo (+19.0%). The total of dry bulk cargo amounted to 524 thousand tons (+6,3%). In the passenger sector, cruise traffic is state of 293 thousand people (-2.0%) and ferry traffic of 73 thousand people (+2.6%).

In the first eleven months of 2024, the Catalan port of call handled a total of 64.62 million tonnes, with a growth of +9.6% over the same period last year. In the solo Container segment traffic was 3.59 million TEUs (+19.6%), of which 1.96 million in import-export (+9.1%) and 1.62 million TEUs in transit (+35.3%).