Last month the port of Barcelona handled 5.07 million tons of goods, with a decrease of -4.0% on the September 2025 that, in the face of a stable volume of miscellaneous goods, was determined by reductions in bulk cargo liquid (-4.1%) and dry bulk (-40.9%).

In the third quarter of 2026, the Catalan port of call handled a total of 16.36 million tons of cargo, with a decrease of -4.4% on the same period last year. Miscellaneous goods alone amounted to 11.40 million tonnes (-4.3%), of which 8.40 million tons of containerized goods (-6.0%) achieved with a container handling of 891,054 TEUs (-9.2%), including 560,624 TEUs in import-export (-1.4%) and 330,429 TEUs in transit (-19.9%), and 3.00 million tons of other miscellaneous goods (+0.8%). Car traffic was 155 thousand vehicles (-5.5%). In the liquid bulk sector, the total was 3.99 million tonnes (-1.5%), of which 2.70 million tonnes of hydrocarbons (-14.6%) and 1.29 million tonnes of hydrocarbons tons of other bulk cargo. Solid bulk cargo was 972 thousand tons (-15.6%).

In the summer quarter July-September, cruise passengers in Barcelona grew by +9.5% to 2.37 million units, while ferry passengers fell by -2.4% to 848 thousand units.

In the first nine months of 2026, freight traffic increased 52.80 million tonnes, representing a growth of +1.0% compared to the corresponding period of 2025. Containers alone amounted to 2,817,980 TEUs (-0.4%), of which 1,644,414 were import-export (-1.2%) and 1,173,566 TEUs in transit (+0.7%). The Port Authority of Barcelona has announced that the container traffic benefited from volumes coming from, in particular, China (+15.1%) and Vietnam (+12.6%), while the exports fell by -7.2%, affected by the decline in markets such as China and the United States.