Last year, the traffic of goods handled by the port of Barcelona remained unchanged compared to the total in 2024 having amounted to 67.7 million tons, with a decrease in of volumes recorded in the first half of 2025, which is was offset by an increase in the second half of the year generated by the increase in liquid bulk traffic, while in the the decline in traffic continued containerized and conventional goods were stable.

In particular, in 2025 containerized traffic is state of 35.3 million tons (-6.4%) with a of containers which amounted to 3,726,624 TEUs (-4.2%), of which 2,213,976 TEUs in import-export (+3.0%) and 1,512,648 TEUs in transhipment (-13.1%). The Port Authority of Barcelona has announced whereas China, the US and Turkey continued to meet in 2025 The main commercial partners of the Catalan port confirmed with regard to containerized traffic, with market shares equal to respectively at 28%, 6% and 5%. Conventional goods have become 11.7 million tonnes (+0.6%) and car traffic new vehicles was 716,657 (+5.1%). In the liquid bulk traffic, traffic recorded a marked increase in +21.7% rising to a new all-time high of 16.6 million tons driven by hydrocarbons with 12.5 million tons (+33.7%), with a sharp rise in imports and transits of petrol and gas liquefied natural waste, while the other liquid loads have decreased by -4.2% to 4.1 million tons. Dry bulk cargo declining with a total of almost 4.1 million tons (-15.0%).

Last year, cruise passengers in the Catalan port increased by +9.4% to 4.0 million units and growing ferry passengers also performed with 1.8 million units.

In the fourth quarter of 2025 alone, the port handled 16.7 million tonnes of goods, with a Progression of +4.5% over the October-December period of the year previous. The goods in containers amounted to over 8.5 million tonnes (-1.4%) and were totalled with a handling of containers equal to 900,979 TEUs (-1.3%), of which 551,706 TEUs in import-export (+0.5%) and 349,272 TEUs in transit (-3,9%). Conventional freight traffic was 2.7 million tons (-1.4%) and that of new cars of 189,412 vehicles (+9.7%). In the dry bulk segment, 829 thousand tons handled (-39.3%) and in bulk liquid more than 4.3 million tons (+36.7%).

In the last quarter of last year, cruise passengers were 923 thousand (+12.5%) and ferry passengers 266 thousand (+4.4%).