Last month, cargo traffic in the Spanish ports of Barcelona and Valencia has increased. In the port of call Catalan A total of 5.73 million tons of cargoes, with an increase of +3.9% over August 2024. In the miscellaneous goods segment alone, Barcelona was 3.94 million tons handled (+1.4%), of which 3.11 million tons of containerized goods (+2.2%) made with a handling of containers equal to 336 thousand TEUs (+0.3%) - including 184 thousand TEUs in import-export (-7.6%) and 152 thousand TEUs in transit (+11.7%) - and 828 thousand tons of conventional goods (-1.5%). In the liquid bulk sector, traffic was 1.38 million tonnes (+1.7%), of which 1.14 million tonnes of hydrocarbons (+15.8%) and 238 thousand tons of other liquid cargoes (-35.8%), and in the dry bulk sector amounted to 413 thousand tons (+50.9%). In the passenger sector, traffic cruise industry was 489 thousand people (+6.9%) and that of the ferries of 413 thousand people (+5.9%).

The monthly growth in freight traffic in the port is similar of Valencia, which in August 2025 handled 6.01 million tonnes (+3.0%), of which 4.82 million tonnes of goods containerized (+2.4%) made by handling 488 thousand TEUs (+7.9%) - including about 265 thousand TEUs in import-export (+15.8%) and about 224 thousand TEUs in transit (+0.2%) -, 891 thousand tons of goods conventional bulk (+1.3%), 127 thousand tons of liquid bulk (+6.0%) and 98 thousand tons of dry bulk (+28.5%).

In the first eight months of 2025, the Port of Barcelona handled a total of 45.70 million tons of cargo, with a decrease of -1.6% on the corresponding period of last year. In the Container segment traffic was 24.08 million of tons (-8.2%) with a container handling of 2.53 million TEUs (-5.2%), of which 1.48 million TEUs in import-export (+4.4%) and 1.05 million TEUs in transit (-16.1%). The conventional goods amounted to 7.95 million tonnes (+0,7%). Liquid bulk cargo grew by +18.8% to 11.06 million tonnes, while solid waste fell by -13.2% to 2.60 million tonnes. In the passengers, cruise passengers were 2.63 million (+11.0%) and ferry passengers 1.34 million (+1.9%).

In the period January-August of this year, the traffic of goods in the port of Valencia amounted to 49.30 million tonnes (-0.3%), of which 38.9 million tonnes of cargo containerized (-0.6%) made by handling 3.78 million TEUs (+4.6%) - including about two million TEUs in import-export (+14.3%) and about 1.7 million TEUs in transit (-4.6%) -, 8.13 million TEUs tonnes of conventional goods (+1.1%), 1.01 million tonnes of tons of dry bulk (-11.3%) and 873 thousand tons of liquid bulk (+14.9%). Cruise traffic was of 535 thousand passengers (+1.2%) and that of ferries of 608 thousand passengers (+0.4%).