2025 has started very badly for Spanish ports that in January they handled 43.0 million tons of with a decrease of -6.4% on January 2024. The deflection is was determined by the reduction in bulk volumes, with those amounted to 14.0 million tonnes (-10.8%) and those solid at 6.2 million tons (-18.3%). On the other hand, the miscellaneous goods sector where 14.9 million were handled of tons of containerized goods (+1.2%) for a traffic equal to 1,405,827 TEU containers (+4.2%) and 6.7 million tonnes of conventional goods (+3.0%).

Among the main ports in terms of traffic volume, the The most pronounced percentage decreases were the port of Huelva, which handled 2.6 million tons of goods (-14.6%), and the airports of Bilbao and Tarragona, where traffic was 2.4 million (-20.2%) and 2.3 million respectively tons (24.5%).

The government port agency Puerts del Estado highlighted whereas 2025 started with a weakening of trade also due to the storms that hit the Spanish coasts in the January, causing occasional closures of some terminals and impossibility of access to ports for ships.

In January 2025, container traffic also recorded a reversal of the trend having recorded a decrease of -2.3% in containers in transit, results of 735,316 TEUs, an increase +10.5% of import-export revenues, amounting to 502,178 TEUs, and a An increase of +5.4% in national traffic to 168,333 TEUs.

On the other hand, passenger traffic grew by +10.4% last month it totaled 806 thousand cruise passengers (+20.5%) and 1.6 million passengers on regular services (+6.0%).