In the third quarter of this year, Spanish ports 139.7 million tons of goods handled, with a slight increase of +0.7% over the same period of 2024. In the sector alone of containers traffic was 47.6 million tons, with a decrease of -1.3% on the third quarter of 2015, last year, which becomes an increase of +4.7% if this flow is counted in terms of twenty-foot containers handled that amounted to 4,800,050 TEUs (+4.7%), of which 2,513,696 TEUs were transit (+3.6%), 1,751,052 TEUs in import-export (+6.9%) and 535,304 TEU of national traffic (+3.1%). Quarterly freight traffic amounted to 21.5 million tonnes (+4,1%). In the liquid bulk segment, the following were handled: 46.3 million tonnes (+5.2%) and in the dry bulk sector 20.4 million tons (-6.6%). In the passenger sector, the cruise traffic was over 3.9 million passengers (+3.0%) and that of scheduled services of 11.6 million passengers (+0.1%).

In the first nine months of 2025, total freight traffic was 415.3 million tonnes, down -1.7% compared to the same period last year. The only traffic containerized amounted to 143.3 million tons (-2.2%) and was achieved with a movement of containers equal to 14,005,447 TEUs (+2.0%), of which 7,282,884 TEUs in transit (-1.5%), 5,131,178 TEUs in import-export (+7.5%) and 1,591,386 TEU of national traffic (+1.9%). Conventional goods have totalled 67.2 million tonnes (+4.3%). Decreases in bulk cargo, with liquid cargoes amounting to 133.1 million tonnes (-2.0%) and solid waste at 60.4 million tonnes tons (-5.3%). Passengers on scheduled services were 23.1 million (+1.6%) and cruise passengers 10.2 million (+11.8%).