
As in the previous three months, in February 2025 the
traffic of goods in the port of Barcelona has suffered a
decrease that was equal to -4.2% on the same month of the
last year having amounted to 5.20 million tons. The
reduction was generated by the decline in containerized goods
and dry bulk cargo. In the container sector, traffic is
3.02 million tonnes (-4.2%) and was
built with a container handling of 307,395 TEUs,
with a decrease of -4.2% generated by the accentuation of
Containers transshipped in the Catalan port Results of 122,146
TEU (-18.8%), and by a less marked contraction of containers in
import-export amounted to 185,250 TEUs (-0.3%). Other goods
miscellaneous, on the other hand, marked a slight increase of +0.7%, rising to
906 thousand tons. New car traffic has been
of 51 thousand vehicles (-15.3%). In the dry bulk sector, the
traffic was 199 thousand tons (-45.2%) and in that
of liquid bulk cargo of 1.07 million tonnes (+6.1%), of which
881 thousand tons of hydrocarbons (+17.4%).
In February 2025, cruise traffic in the port of
Barcelona recorded an increase of +20.5% having been
90 thousand passengers, while ferry traffic, with 58 thousand
passenger passenger market, marked a decrease of -0.9%.
In the first two months of this year, total freight traffic
was 9.88 million tonnes, with a contraction
-4.6% over the first two months of 2024. The only traffic
containerized was 597,761 TEUs (-1.0%), of which
243,989 TEUs of transhipment traffic (-16.6%) and 353,773 TEUs in
import-export (+13.7%).