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Ports of Catalonia. Movements of vessels and goods

Ports of Catalonia. Movements of vessels and goods 2019
Barcelona Tarragona Ports of the Generalitat Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Movement of vessels 8,901 2,545 265 11,711 170,470 6.9
Gross tonnage (thousands) 344,731 48,988 1,281 395,000 2,391,270 16.5
Movement of goods (thousands of tons) 65,958 32,709 1,061 99,728 552,159 18.1
General goods 45,754 1,780 146 47,680 274,078 17.4
Wholesale solids 4,071 9,719 912 14,702 90,941 16.2
Wholesale liquids 16,132 21,211 3 37,345 187,140 20.0
Movement of containers (thousands of TEU) 3,325 48 0 3,373 17,472 19.3
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 26, 2020.

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 "..".