Of the 144.8 million tons of goods handled by ports Spanish in the second quarter of this year ( of 23 July 2026), 26.8 million tonnes passed through the port of Algeciras, equal to an increase of +4.3% on the second quarter of 2025. In Algeciras the only traffic of was stable having amounted to 14.1 million tonnes (-0.2%) achieved with a handling of containers equal to 1,265,296 TEUs (+1.4%). Conventional goods, with 3.5 million tons, recorded an increase of +6.7% and liquid bulk cargo was also on the rise, totalled 7.5 million tonnes (+11.3%), while solid waste decreased by -5.5% to 74 thousand tons.

In the second quarter of 2026, the Port of Barcelona handled 18.0 million tons of goods globally, with a An increase of +2.4% over the same period last year. In the Catalan airport: containerized traffic has increased by +10.6% rising to 9.4 million tons made with a container handling of 1,005,303 TEUs (+10.6%). Read More the increase in conventional goods was limited, reaching 3.3 million tons (+2.4%). Liquid bulk cargo, with 4.2 million of tonnes, recorded a decrease of -14.9% due to the -24.2% reduction in hydrocarbons to 2.8 million tons. Dry bulk cargo amounted to 1.0 million tons (+21.2%). Quarterly passenger traffic in the Barcelona port was 1.3 million cruise passengers (-2.6%) and 436 thousand ferry passengers (-0.9%).

If in the other two main Spanish ports the traffic quarterly results were up in the port of Valencia, on the other hand, was accused of a drop of -3.8% with 19.0 million tonnes of goods handled compared to 19.7 million tonnes in the period April-June 2025. The decline was produced by the decrease in container traffic that has 14.8 million tonnes (-5.2%) with a of containers equal to 1,491,404 TEUs (-0.8%). Also declining dry bulk with 357 thousand tons (-9.1%), while liquid bulk cargo increased by +6.1% to 358 thousand tons and grew conventional goods were also found to be with 3.3 million tons (+2,8%).