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Maritime transport. Movement of vessels, passengers, goods and containers

Maritime transport. Movement of vessels, passengers, goods and containers Catalonia. November, 2017
Year-over-year variation
Value Absolute % month % accumulated
Merchant vessels (units) 961 40 4.3 3.0
Barcelona 737 54 7.9 3.3
Tarragona 224 -14 -5.9 2.0
Passengers (thousands) 258.9 71.6 38.2 4.6
Barcelona 258.3 71.1 38.0 3.6
Tarragona 0.7 0.5 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 290.2
Goods (thousands of tonnes) 8,048.9 1,829.3 29.4 19.5
Barcelona 5,225.4 1,720.2 49.1 26.3
Tarragona 2,823.5 109.2 4.0 9.1
Containers (in TEUs) (1) 263,409 98,248 59.5 33.8
Barcelona 258,375 99,651 62.8 36.1
Tarragona 5,034 -1,403 -21.8 -25.1
Source: Ministry of Public Works. State Ports.
(1) TEU: 20 foot equivalent unit.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Maritime transport. Movement of vessels, passengers, goods and containers Spain. November, 2017
Year-over-year variation
Value Absolute % month % accumulated
Merchant vessels (units) 11,711 397 3.5 2.8
Passengers (thousands) 2,142.4 241.5 12.7 4.0
Goods (thousands of tonnes) 46,130.6 4,331.7 10.4 7.8
Containers (in TEUs) (1) 1,385,355 145,742 11.8 5.4
Source: Ministry of Public Works. State Ports.
(1) TEU: 20 foot equivalent unit.

Last update: January 10, 2018. Next update: April 5, 2024

Annual data

PORTS

These statistics have a specific section with all the information available: Statistics on Maritime Traffic in Ports (PORTS).

Methodological note

The movement of vessels reflects the number of merchant vessels entering each port, regardless of the type of sailing (cabotage or foreign), nationality (Spanish or foreign) or the type of vessel (tanker, bulk carriers, container ships, general cargo, etc.).

Passenger traffic at ports measures the number of people who travel in any type of merchant vessel either entering or leaving the ports for any type of sailing (cabotage or foreign).

Goods traffic in ports includes the tonnes of cargo loaded, unloaded and transshipped in the ports. Cargo includes bulk liquids (oil products, natural gas and other liquids), bulk solids (cement, coal, cereals, minerals, etc.), and general cargo, which is cargo in unit load devices which can be counted (bottled liquids, bagged cement, etc.).

Container traffic includes cargo loaded or unloaded in merchant vessels and produced by any sort of sailing (foreign or cabotage), depending on whether the transported cargo is in containers measuring 20 feet or more.

Data for Catalonia refer to the ports of Barcelona and Tarragona.

The data for this series are provisional. When data for a new period is incorporated, that of the same period of the previous year is revised.