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Ports of Catalonia. Movements of vessels and goods

Ports of Catalonia. Movements of vessels and goods 2008
Barcelona Tarragona Ports of the Generalitat Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Movement of vessels 9,582 2,707 448 12,737 123,291 10.9
Gross tonnage (thousands) 258,340 37,480 2,014 297,834 1,627,363 17.6
Movement of goods (thousands of tons) 50,545 32,999 1,895 85,439 458,852 18.6
General goods 34,934 1,561 455 36,949 203,577 19.3
Wholesale solids 3,506 12,421 1,439 17,366 101,343 19.2
Wholesale liquids 12,105 19,017 1 31,123 153,932 20.5
Movement of containers (thousands of TEU) 2,570 47 0 2,617 13,328 19.6
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.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

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 "..".