Last month, cargo traffic in the ports of Algeciras recorded a growth of +6.9% on March 2025, while the moved by the port of Barcelona marked a drop of -5.5%. In the first port of call, the following were disembarked and embarked: 9.27 million tonnes, of which 4.6 million tonnes tons of containerized goods (+7.4%) made with a handling of containers equal to 459,669 TEUs (+27.4%), 1.3 million tonnes of conventional goods (+0.1%), 2.7 million tonnes of conventional goods tons of liquid bulk (+5.6%) and 30 thousand tons of bulk cargo dry (+43.3%).

In Barcelona, the total traffic was 6.0 million tons, of which 2.8 million tons of cargo containerized (-16.4%) with a container handling of 302,388 TEUs (-11.0%), 1.1 million tonnes of cargo (+5.5%), 1.7 million tonnes of liquid bulk (+22.6%) and 318 thousand tons of dry bulk (-35.0%).

In the first three months of 2026, global traffic in the port of Algeciras was 23.4 million tonnes, with a decrease of -7.2% on the first quarter of last year. In the container sector traffic was 12.0 million tons (-4.9%) with a container handling of 1,150,359 TEUs (+9.3%), of which 1,003,834 TEUs in transit (+10.4%) and 146,525 TEUs in import-export (+1.9%). In addition to the marked increase in transhipment traffic, the increase in containers is was generated by the exceptional increase of +66.4% in empty ones, results equal to 235,643 TEUs), while the full ones, equal to 914,716 TEU (+0.4%), remained almost stable. Traffic of conventional goods amounted to over 3.4 million TEU (-3.0%). Liquid and dry bulk cargo declined respectively by -13.6% and -28.8% falling to 6.3 million and 65 thousand tons.

In the first quarter of this year, the Port of Barcelona handled a total of 16.9 million tons (+4.4%). The containerized traffic was 9.0 million tons (-2.6%) with a container handling of 921,623 TEUs (-1.8%), of which 513,669 TEUs in import-export (-6.7%) and 407,954 TEUs in transit (+5.0%). Container traffic in Barcelona too recorded a strong growth with 241,658 TEUs handled (+7.7%), while full containers decreased by -4.8% to 679,965 TEU. In the conventional freight sector, traffic is 2.7 million tons (-0.9%). Quarterly volume of liquid bulk cargo, amounting to 4.3 million tonnes, marked a marked increase of +33.7% driven by natural gas (886 thousand tons, +64.5%) and chemicals (807 thousand tons, +105,9%). Dry bulk cargo stood at 913 thousand tons (-8,6%). In the first three months of 2026, cruise passenger traffic in the port of Barcelona was 467 thousand people (+32.9%) and that of ferry passengers of 234 thousand people (+9.6%).