In the first four months of 2024, Spanish ports handled a total of 185.0 million tonnes of goods, with an increase of +2.2% compared to the same period of 2019. last year. Growth is mainly driven by the containerized traffic, which amounted to 63.4 million tonnes (+10.7%), a volume that was achieved with a Container handling amounted to 5,857,439 TEUs (+11.9%). The increase in container flow is attributable to - such as confirmed today by Spain's Puertos del Estado - from the deviation containerised maritime services from the route through Suez to the one around the Cape of Good Hope. The rise of containers recorded in the first four months of this year was generated, in fact, mainly by the growth of transhipment, which amounted to 3,166,185 TEUs (+18.6%), while the remaining traffic totalled 2,691,246 TEUs (+5.0%).

Freight traffic also increased 28.4 million tonnes (+2.7%) and liquid bulk with 60.9 million tonnes (+1.4%), while Dry bulk cargo decreased by -12.5% to 27.3 million Tons.

In the passenger sector, passenger traffic scheduled services was 6.5 million people (+2.9%) and that of cruise passengers by over 2.9 million people (+6.2%).