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Ports of Catalonia. Movements of vessels and goods

Ports of Catalonia. Movements of vessels and goods 2022
Barcelona Tarragona Ports of the Generalitat Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Movement of vessels 8,713 2,319 205 11,237 157,099 7.2
Gross tonnage (thousands) 350,974 46,017 1,466 398,457 2,489,508 16.0
Movement of goods (thousands of tons) 69,127 29,386 1,435 99,948 546,192 18.3
General goods 49,025 2,386 128 51,539 270,503 19.1
Wholesale solids 4,549 9,332 1,307 15,188 93,985 16.2
Wholesale liquids 15,553 17,668 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 33,221 181,704 18.3
Movement of containers (thousands of TEU) 3,523 83 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 3,606 17,149 21.0
Source: Port de Barcelona. Port de Tarragona. Ports de la Generalitat. Puertos del Estado.
Notes:
Movement of goods: includes loaded and unloaded goods. Does not include food supplies, fishing or local movements.
TEU: twenty-foot equivalent unit.
Provisional data.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: November 15, 2023.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

General goods
Goods packaged in load units (sacks, crates, boxes, etc.) or units that can be counted.
Movement of vessels
Maritime journeys, depending on the nationality of the ports of origin and the destination they are called: exterior movement of vessels and coastal shipping.
Gross register tonnage (GRT)
Capacity of a vessel measured in Moorson tonnes, which are equivalent to 2.83 m3 of the decimal system, considering the loads, provisions and crew. From 1995 the measurement Gross tonnage (GT) was introduced to substitute it.

Methodological aspects

The autonomous ports of Barcelona and Tarragona provide, in their reports, statistics on the movements of boats, goods, containers, passengers and automobiles.

The Ports de la Generalitat company has responsibilities over the ports of Palamós, Vallcarca, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Sant Carles de la Ràpita and Alcanar. The total movement of all these ports is included under the name Generalitat ports.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".

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