Last month, cargo traffic in Spanish ports increased 48.8 million tons, an increase of +2.4% on April 2025 generated by volume growth in all product sectors with the exception of dry bulk which, with a total of 6.5 million tonnes, recorded a decrease of -1.6%. Liquid bulk traffic has 16.3 million tonnes (+3.4%), that of goods conventional traffic to 8.0 million tonnes (+6.7%) and the traffic of containers to 16.8 million tons (+1.7%), the latter Built with a container handling of 1,658,099 TEUs (+5.6%), of which 858,642 TEUs in transit (+5.3%), 613,551 TEUs in transit import-export (+6.2%) and 176,675 TEUs of national traffic (+5.2%).

In April 2026, passenger traffic in ports has suffered a marked decrease, with two million passengers on regular services (-9.3%) and 1.2 million cruise passengers (-18,4%).

In the first four months of this year, ports have handled over 181 million tons of goods, with a decrease of -0.3% over the same period in 2025. The number of liquid bulk with 60.8 million tons (+2.9%) and cargo conventional with 29.1 million tons (+0.1%). Bulk amounted to 25.0 million tonnes (-6.8%) and the containerized goods to 62.0 million tons (-0.8%) with a Container handling of over 6.1 million TEUs (+4.2%), of which 3.2 million TEUs in transit (+6.1%), 2.2 million of TEUs in import-export (+6.2%) and 700 thousand TEUs in Italy (+5,2%). In the passenger sector, cruise passengers have been almost four million (+2.7%) and ferry passengers 6.5 million (+0,3%).