Last month, the traffic of goods in the port of Valencia grew by +3.0% on July 2023 having amounted to 6.18 million of tonnes, an increase that was determined by the continuation of the positive trend in the container sector since last September and accentuated with the crisis in the Red Sea that increased transhipment traffic in the port Spanish ships which, in order to avoid transit through the Suez Canal, sailing on the route around the Cape of Buona Hope. In July 2024, containerized traffic was of 4.98 million tons (+9.3%), a volume that was Built with a container handling of 457 thousand TEUs (+6.1%), including 73 thousand full TEUs on boarding (-5.9%), 83 thousand TEUs full on landing (+7.4%), 193 thousand full TEUs in transit (+18.6%) and 108 thousand empty TEUs (-4.7%). Conventional goods, on the other hand, fell by -8.4% falling to 941 thousand tons and decreasing are liquid and solid bulk cargo were also found to be equal respectively to 93 thousand (-36.6%) and 127 thousand tons (-44.7%).

In the first seven months of 2024, the Port of Valencia handled a total of 43.26 million tons of goods, with an increase of +8.7% on the same period of last year year. Containerized goods alone, with 34.23 million tons, recorded an increase of +10.4%, a growth that is +13.1% if traffic is counted in terms of containers of twenty feet moved, which amounted to 3.14 million TEUs, of which 498 thousand full TEUs at embarkation (-0.9%), 515 thousand full TEUs at embarkation (+6.6%), 1.35 million full TEUs in transit (+20.6%) and 775 thousand empty TEUs (+15.8%). In the miscellaneous goods segment, total was 7.03 million tons (+5.25). The liquid bulk cargo amounted to 653 thousand tons (-29.8%) and solid waste at 1.10 million tons (+16.3%).