Last month, freight traffic in the port of Barcelona amounted to 5.65 million tonnes, with a decrease of -6.5% on the previous year. July 2025. The decline was mainly determined by the by the contraction in the volumes of miscellaneous goods which stood at 3.98 million tonnes (-7.8%), of which 2.86 million tonnes of containerized goods (-10.5%) made with a handling of containers of 300,961 TEUs (-13.2%) - including 187,352 TEUs in import-export (-4.9%) and 113,608 TEUs in transit (-24.1%) - and 1.12 million tonnes of other miscellaneous goods (-0.1%). Declining also the traffic of new cars, equal to 57,665 vehicles (-6.5%), as well as such as liquid bulk cargo with a total of 1.34 million tons (-5.3%), of which 846 thousand tons of hydrocarbons (-21.4%) and 495 thousand tons of other cargo (+45.7%). Bulk dry waste amounted to 328 thousand tons (+6.6%). In the field of passengers, cruise traffic recorded a decisive increase of +16.9% rising to 530 thousand passengers, while that of the ferries decreased by -4.4% to 259 thousand units.

In the first seven months of 2026, the Catalan port of call handled 40.62 million tons of goods, up by +1.9% on the same period of last year, which was was determined by the increases recorded in all types of traffic. As for containers, the total of 21.32 million tons, marked an increase of +1.5% with a container handling which amounted to 2,227,887 TEUs (+1.5%), of which 1,271,142 TEUs in import-export (-1.6%) and 956,745 TEUs in transit (+6.0%). Other miscellaneous goods amounted to 7.17 million tons (+0.7%). The handling of new cars is was equal to 444,029 vehicles (+4.6%). Both bulk cargo liquid and solid ones, respectively equal to 9.87 million (+2.7%) and 2.26 million tons (+5.3%). Cruise passengers there were 2.30 million (+7.3%) and 929 thousand ferry passengers (+0,5%).