Tenerife and Algeciras Lead Regular Passenger Traffic

The movement of regular passengers recorded a notable increase in the first four months of the year across the State Ports, with an 8.1% rise totaling 5.5 million, while cruise passengers decreased by 6.7%, down to two million. Santa Cruz de Tenerife moved 1.4 million passengers (+4.8%) followed by Algeciras with the same figure (+7.6%); Balearic Islands (880,000, +16.0%); Ceuta (572,000, +6.4%); Las Palmas (345,000, -4.1%) and Barcelona (249,000, +11.2%).

The State Ports consider the ro-ro traffic particularly relevant, which grew by 11.7% to 18.3 million tons, the highest figure recorded for this period. Among Balearic Islands, Barcelona, Valencia, and Algeciras accounted for 71.2% of these goods with very notable increases in Algeciras (+17.2%), Valencia (+16.2%), and Balearic Islands (+13.5%). In Barcelona, this traffic increased slightly (+1.7%).

General cargo continues to grow steadily and also reached a record figure of 76.7 million tons (+6.7%). Algeciras (+17.7%) and Balearic Islands (+11.7%) recorded the largest increases, followed by Barcelona (+5.8%) and Valencia (+1.9%), while declines were recorded in Bilbao (-1.6%) and especially Las Palmas (-11.7%). These six ports operated 84.7% of the general cargo. 71.0% of it was moved in containers and the remaining 29.0% as conventional cargo. The movement of transit containers grew notably by 6.5%.

Photo: Juan Carlos Díaz Lorenzo