In the second quarter of this year, Spanish ports handled a total of 144.8 million tons of goods, with an increase of +2.9% over the same period in 2025. The increase was primarily driven by traffic growth of liquid bulk cargo which amounted to 47.1 million tons (+7.2%) as well as the new historical record of traffic of conventional goods which amounted to 24.3 million tonnes (+4.0%). Even in the sector of goods in A new quarterly all-time high was set which is such, however, if this flow is Counted in terms of 20-foot containers handled: In fact, this total is 4,953,425 TEUs, i.e. higher by +1.8% compared to the previous historical peak of the second quarter of 2025, while if containerized traffic is calculated by weight, the total for the period April-June 2026 is 49.7 million tons, a volume that represents a decrease of -0.5% on the same period last year and is far from the record of 52.6 million tons in the fourth quarter of 2020. Dry bulk traffic, with 19.7 million tonnes, marked a slight increase of +0.5%.

In the second quarter of 2026, passenger traffic in the Spanish ports was almost 10.4 million people (-4.5%), of which 6.7 million passengers on regular lines (-3.3%) and 3.6 million cruise passengers (-6.6%).

In the first six months of 2026, total freight traffic was 277.7 million tonnes, with a progression by +0.8% over the first half of last year. In the of liquid bulk cargo was handled 91.4 million tons (+4.8%) and in the dry bulk sector 38.2 million tonnes (-4.0%). Containerized traffic has amounted to 94.9 million tonnes (-1.1%) with a container handling that has reached a new record half-year record of 9,417,467 TEUs (+2.4%), of which 4,874,751 in transit (+2.1%). Conventional goods totaled 45.4 million tonnes (+1.0%). In the passenger sector, cruise passengers were almost 6.4 million (+1.8%) and passengers on the regular services 11.2 million (-2.7%).