Last year the port of Barcelona handled 67.83 million tons of goods, with an increase of +8.7% on the 2023 driven by +12.4% growth in containerized traffic which amounted to 37.68 million tonnes, volume built with a container handling of 3.89 million TEUs (+18.5%), of which 1.74 million TEUs in transit (+31.8%) and 2.15 million TEUs in import-export (+9.5%). On the rise are Other miscellaneous goods were also found to have 11.66 million tonnes (+3.8%) and liquid bulk with 13.69 million tons (+6.3%), of which 9.38 million tonnes of hydrocarbons (0%) and 4.31 million tons of other liquid cargoes (+23.4%). Dry bulk cargo was stable with 4.80 million tons (+0.1%). In the new car traffic sector, new cars were handled 682 thousand vehicles (-13.7%).

Passenger traffic was unchanged in 2024 in the ferry segment with 1.74 million people transited (+0.2%), while it grew by +2.4% in the cruises that totaled 3.66 million passengers (+2.4%).

In the fourth quarter of 2024 alone, the Catalan port of call handled a total of 15.99 million tons of goods, with an increase of +1.2% over the October-December period of the year previous. In the various goods sector, the following have been handled: 8.67 million tons of containerized goods (+0.5%) with a handling of containers equal to 915 thousand TEUs (+9.7%), including 364 thousand in transit (+4.8%) and 551 thousand in import-export (+13.3%), and 2.79 million tons of other miscellaneous goods (+6.6%). Bulk solid markets, with 1.37 million tonnes, recorded a growth of +19.1%, while liquid bulk cargo, with 3.16 million tons, fell by -7.2%. New car traffic was 173 thousand units (-13.3%).

In the last quarter of last year, passengers in the ferries were 255 thousand (-4.3%) and those of cruises 823 thousand (-8,2%).