Containerised cargo grew by 1.7% and 2.4% in tonnage if compared to 2019, previous to the pandemic.
Exports of Spanish companies operating in Valenciaport, played a strategic role growing by 22.7% with a total of 632,082 containers full of cargo up to 31 July, 116,880 more than in the same period in 2020.
This growth is reflected in the dynamism of sectors such as construction materials, the agri-food industry, chemical and steel products and the automotive sector.
In these first seven months of the year, imports have also increased by 15.53% and transhipment by 7.61%. Between January and July of this year, ro-ro traffic was 14.36% higher than in the same period in 2020, and automobiles registered an increase of 5.35%.
In the year-on-year data for August 2020-July 2021, – a period that is still marked by the complexity of the economic and pandemic situation –a total of 5.72m teu were moved, a number that is close to 6m teu per year.
Trade with China was the most important with a total of 356,389 teu at the end of July, 22.61% more than in 2020, followed by the United States, with a growth of 7.86% and 317,989 teu. In third place is Turkey with an increase of 10.74% and in fourth place is India with a growth of 38.18%.
The Far East is the first destination of containers with a growth of 14.55% compared to 2020, followed by the Mediterranean and Black Sea (+6.67%), West Africa (+34.65%) or Atlantic South America (15.59%).
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