Last month, container traffic in the port of call of Algeciras amounted to 441 thousand TEUs, with an increase of +5.4% on May 2024 to which it contributed, as it is that took place in the port of Barcelona, a resumption of traffic international transit containerized which was equal to 343 thousand TEUs (+10.6%). Growth has been generated essentially from the handling of empty containers that are results totalling 82 thousand TEUs (+24.7%), while those were 359 thousand TEUs (+1.8%). This is reflected in the weight of container traffic handled in May 2025 which is 4.88 million tonnes, down -1.8%.

Overall, the traffic of goods handled last year month from the Spanish port amounted to 8.85 million tons (-2.5%), including 2.23 million tons of bulk liquid (-3.9%), 34 thousand tons of dry bulk (+2,603.7%) and 1.2 million tonnes of conventional goods (-4.7%).

In the first five months of 2025, total traffic was of 42.61 million tons, with a decrease of -5.7% on the same period as last year. In the container sector, the traffic was 22.11 million tons (-8.3%) made with a container handling of 1.88 million TEU (-6.3%), including international transit traffic of to 1.41 million TEUs (-4.8%). The total number of empty containers is 273 thousand TEUs (-5.5%) and that of full containers at 1.61 million TEUs (-6.4%). Conventional goods amounted to 5.90 million tons (+6.1%), liquid bulk cargo to 11.87 million tons (-4.5%) and dry bulk cargo to 156 thousand tons (+122,5%).