In the second quarter of 2025, freight traffic in ports was 140.8 million tonnes, with a decrease of -4.7% on the same period last year, which was was determined by the decline in volumes handled in all main product segments except for goods which, with 23.6 million tonnes, recorded a increase of +1.8%. In the container sector, traffic is 49.9 million tonnes (-3.7%) and was made with a handling of 4,855,308 containers TEUs (+0.2%), including 2,538,065 TEUs in transit (-4.5%), 1,782,658 TEUs in import-export (+7.7%) and 534,584 TEUs of national traffic (+0,9%). Reduction in containerized traffic suffers from comparison with a 2024 during which there was a significant growth in transhipment traffic due to the reorganization of the intercontinental maritime services caused by the crisis in the Red Sea which had led shipping companies to avoid transit their ships through the Suez Canal by hijacking them on the route around the Cape of Good Hope, reorganization of the services that in the Mediterranean had initially rewarded mainly Spanish ports. In the second trimester of This year, moreover, the reduction in liquid and solid bulk volumes that have fallen -6.2% and -9.5% respectively to 44.0 million and 19.6 million Tons.

During the period, passenger traffic in ports was over 10.8 million units (+9.5%), of which more than 6.9 million passengers of the regular (+7.7%) and almost 3.9 million cruise passengers (+12.9%).

In the first half of 2025, total freight traffic was 275.4 million tonnes, with a reduction of -3.1% on the first half of last year. Similar to the in the second quarter alone, only goods increased conventional with 45.3 million tons (+3.6%). Loads containerized vehicles totaled 95.7 million tons (-2.8%) with a container handling of 9,188,339 TEUs (+0.5%), of which 4,754,676 TEUs in transit (-4.3%), 3,377,687 TEUs in transit import-export (+7.8%) and 1,055,978 TEUs of national traffic (+1.4%). Liquid and dry bulk cargo amounted to 87.0 million tonnes (-5.5%) and 39.9 million tonnes (-4.7%). The total of passengers was 17.7 million people (+7.8%), including 11.5 million passengers on scheduled routes (+3.1%) and 6.2 million cruise passengers (+17.7%).