Last month, the port of Valencia handled €6.26 million tonnes of goods, with an increase of +9.7% on April 2023. Containerized cargo increased by +7.3% being amounted to 4.96 million tonnes, a volume which was Built with a container handling of 457 thousand TEUs (+14,2%). Conventional goods totalled 1.06 million tonnes (+22.8%). In the bulk sector, 113 thousand tons of liquid cargo handled (-9.1%) and 86 thousand tonnes of solid loads (+34.7%).

In the first four months of 2024, the Spanish port of call handled globally 23.47 million tonnes, with a growth of +8.6% over the same period last year. The containerised cargo amounted to 18.52 million tonnes (+9.8%), with container handling of 1.7 million TEUs (+12.8%), including 414 thousand TEUs at embarkation (+8.8%), 433,000 TEUs at landing (+8.2%) and 858,000 TEUs in transit (+16.7%). Conventional cargo amounted to 3.88 million tonnes (+8.1%), liquid bulk at 367 thousand tons (-33.6%) and dry bulk at 545 thousand tons (+17.4%).