The Spanish port system closed the third quarter of 2015 2026 with approximately 142.8 million tons of goods handled, with an increase of +2.1% compared to the 139.9 million of the same period of 2025. Growth was supported above all by the liquid bulk sector, which in the summer quarter handled approximately 47.1 million tons (+1.7%). The trend of dry bulk cargo was also particularly positive, between July and September they totaled about 21.8 million tons, with a growth of +6.7% (however, the recovery of the quarter was not enough to cancel the delay accumulated in the previous months and the progressive figure January-September still shows a slight decrease of -0.3%). The traffic of various goods was more stable, compared to the third quarter exceeded 69.4 million tonnes (+0.3%), of which 47.7 million tonnes of containerised cargo (-0.3%) and 21.7 million tonnes million tonnes of conventional goods (+1.5%).

Container traffic counted in twenty-foot boxes handled amounted to 4.75 million TEUs (-1.6%). A supporting the sector was above all the component import-export, which rose to about 1.79 million TEUs (+0.8%). I containers in transit, on the other hand, showed a decrease in -4.9% with 2.39 million TEUs, while domestic traffic recorded a more sustained growth, having stood at 570 thousand TEUs (+6.3%).

In the ro-ro sector, the third quarter is closed with almost 18.6 million tons handled (+2,2%).

As for passenger traffic, in the summer months it is 15.44 million people, with a decrease of -1.1% on the third quarter of 2025, of which 4.04 million cruise passengers (+2.3%) and 11.39 million ferry passengers (-2.3%).