In the first three months of 2024, the port of Algeciras handled 26.6 million tons of goods, an increase of +3.3% on the same period last year. Goods traffic alone Miscellaneous recorded a slight decrease of -0.6% to 17.2 million tonnes, of which 14.0 million tonnes of goods containerized (+4.1%) made with a handling of containers of almost 1.2 million TEUs (+8.1%) and 3.2 million tonnes of conventional goods (-17.0%). Bulk is on the rise liquid with 7.5 million tons (+14.2%), while bulk solids decreased by -65.0% to 67 thousand tonnes.

With regard to container traffic, it is necessary to highlight that the growth of +8.1% is attributable to the +9.1% increase in containers in international transit, results equal to 854 thousand TEUs, and to the imported containers that totalled 93 thousand TEUs (+3.9%), while transit traffic with 140 thousand TEUs, recorded a decrease of -2.5% and There was also a decrease in the number of export containers with 84 thousand TEUs (-13.0%).

In March 2024 alone, the Spanish port of call handled a total of 8.7 million tonnes of cargo, with a decrease of -7.6% on March 2023. In the miscellaneous goods sector the total was 5.9 million tonnes (-6.1%), including 4.8 million tonnes of containerised cargo (-0.5%) with a container handling of 396 thousand TEUs (+3.7%) and less than 1.1 million tonnes (-25.2%). In the 2.3 million tonnes of liquid bulk cargo were handled (-1.1%) and only 260 tonnes in dry bulk (-99,8%).