After the increases of +2.6% and +3.9% year-on-year of cargo traffic handled by the port of Barcelona in the months of July and August, in September 2025 traffic is fell by -1.3% due to a -4.5% contraction in volumes and -9.9% of dry bulk cargo, while the Conventional cargo increased by -5.4% and liquid bulk cargo grew by +3.8%.

In the entire third quarter of this year, the port of call has handled 17.1 million tons of goods, with a Progression of +1.8% over the corresponding period of 2024. In the solo Miscellaneous Goods Sector Container traffic has been equal to 8.9 million tonnes (-1.6%) and was Built with a container handling of 979 thousand TEUs (-0.5%), including 568 thousand TEUs in import-export (+0.8%) and 411 thousand TEUs in transit (-2.4%), while the traffic of conventional goods was amounted to almost 3.0 million tons (+2.5%). The handling of new cars was 164 thousand vehicles (+35,6%). In the liquid bulk segment, traffic is state of 4.0 million tonnes (+8.2%), of which 3.1 million tonnes tons of hydrocarbons (+19.3%). The total dry bulk is state of almost 2.0 million tons (+6.8%). Slightly up cruise traffic with 1.4 million passengers (+0.9%), while the rise in the ferry sector was more accentuated with 869 thousand passengers (+5.7%).

In the third quarter of 2025, freight traffic in the port of Algeciras decreased by -4.1% to 24.2 million tons, a decrease that was determined from the reduction of volumes in all product sectors to except for miscellaneous goods where, with 2.5 million tonnes, an increase of +8.7% was recorded. The traffic of the container stood at 13.1 million tons (-7.3%) and was made with a handling of containers equal to over 1.2 million TEUs (+4.3%). Liquid and solid bulk decreased by -2.8% and -55.7% respectively, falling to 7.1 million tons and 52 thousand tons.