In the first quarter of 2025, freight traffic in ports of Barcelona and Algeciras has decreased compared to the corresponding period of last year, a decline to which contributed by the reduction of containerized loads in transit. In the first three months of this year, the Catalan port of call handled a total of 16.22 million tons of goods (-1,8%). In the container sector alone, traffic was of 9.25 million tonnes (-4.9%) and was carried out with container handling of 933,397 TEUs (-2.0%), including 545,362 TEUs in import-export (+8.9%) and 388,035 TEUs in transit (-14.1%). Conventional freight traffic is amounted to 2.77 million tons (+0.8%), that of bulk solid at 991 thousand tons (-8.5%) and bulk traffic 3.21 million tonnes (+8.1%), of which 2.44 million tonnes tons of hydrocarbons (+26.4%) and 771 thousand tons of other loads (-25.9%).

In the first three months of 2025 through the port of Algeciras 25.03 million tons of goods passed through globally (-6,5%). Containerized traffic alone stood at 12.61 million tons (-10.1%) and was built with container handling of 1,049,564 TEUs (-10.6%), of which 906,719 TEUs in transit (-9.0%) and 142,845 TEUs in transit import-export (-19.7%). Conventional goods totaled 3.55 million tons (+10.7%), dry bulk 81 thousand tons (+21.6%) and liquid bulk 7.22 million tons (-5,7%).

In the first quarter of this year, cruise traffic in the port of Barcelona was 351 thousand passengers (+10.0%) and that of ferry passengers by 214 thousand units (-14,1%). In Algeciras, ferry passenger traffic is one million units (+3.3%).