Traffic report
Container Traffic exceeds 2 million teus, 3% less than in 0, highlighting in this item the 5% increase in full import containers.
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El Port of Algeciras has closed the first half of the year with an activity that exceeds 52 million merchandise, 3% less than in the same period of the previous year. Of this volume, 8 million tons correspond to containerized merchandise (+0%). The descent of Total Traffic It is fundamentally caused by the decrease recorded in bulk, which amounts to 13 million in the case of Liquids (-7%) and almost 6 tons in the case of Solids (-300.000%).
During the semester, the traffic with the best behavior has been that of Narrow, which accumulate passenger traffic of 1 million people (+9%) and 76 vehicles (+4%). Specially highlighting the growth of shipments from the Port of Tarifa, which with 470.432 passengers and 57.791 cars, grows 266% and 216%, respectively, in the year of its 20th anniversary as Schengen External Border.
The traffic of merchandise in trucks and semi-trailers with Ceuta and Tangier Med totals 254.483 units, 1% less than in the same semester of the previous year. Rail traffic in this period has totaled 4 convoys and 414 teus with destination or origin in Abroñigal, Azuqueca, Zaragoza and Marín.



