Goods traffic at the Port of Barcelona totaled 23,875,715 tons between January and April of this year, a 5.8% increase compared to the same period last year. Bulk liquids, which exceeded 6 million tons, continue to drive these results with a 23.7% increase, with vehicle traffic also showing a notable rise.

Among bulk liquids, the excellent results for chemical products stand out, totaling 1.7 million tons (+52.1%), as does natural gas (+44.2%).

Bulk solids moderate their decline compared to previous months, with a -4% decrease, despite good results for potash (24.9%), common salt (21.7%), soybean meal (11.8%), and cement and clinker (5.7%).

Container traffic reached 1.267 million TEUs, an increase of 2.7%. For full containers, which best reflect the state of the hinterland economy, imports grew by 3%; exports decreased by -13.6%, and transshipments increased by 5.5%. Full container traffic with the Port's main foreign markets maintained the trend of recent months, with notable growth with Vietnam (22.3%), Turkey (8.9%), Egypt (4.7%), and Brazil (7%).

Automobile traffic, which reached 244,853 units (+7%), maintains the upward trend of recent months and grew in imports, exports, and transshipments. Electric or hybrid automobiles also maintained growth and represent 17.8% of the total vehicles handled at the Port of Barcelona.

During the first four months of 2026, Intermodal Transport Unit (ITU) traffic grew by 2.8% thanks to positive figures for traffic with the Balearic Islands (0.9%) and especially with Italian ports (+7.4%).

Between January and April, a total of 1,169,616 passenger movements occurred, 5% more than in 2025. Ferry passengers grew by 1.3%. In the cruise sector, during April, a total of 337,317 cruise passengers docked at the Port of Barcelona, -16.1% less than in the same month of 2025. Between January and April, 497,971 people visited the city of Barcelona*.

* Port of Barcelona statistics reflect the number of movements made by cruise ships, following international standard port accounting. These data, however, do not reflect the actual number of cruise passengers arriving in the city. For this reason, work has been done with Turisme de Barcelona to implement a new calculation system that allows for the homogenization of cruise passenger data provided by the Port with those provided by the city.

Source: Port of Barcelona