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Ports of Catalonia. Movements of vessels and goods

Ports of Catalonia. Movements of vessels and goods 2020
Barcelona Tarragona Ports of the Generalitat Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Movement of vessels 6,724 2,195 293 9,212 117,829 7.8
Gross tonnage (thousands) 220,109 37,379 1,362 258,850 1,774,382 14.6
Movement of goods (thousands of tons) 58,493 26,341 1,291 86,125 505,577 17.0
General goods 41,596 1,541 107 43,244 261,514 16.5
Wholesale solids 4,013 6,481 1,184 11,678 77,071 15.2
Wholesale liquids 12,883 18,320 0 31,203 166,991 18.7
Movement of containers (thousands of TEU) 2,958 44 0 3,002 16,793 17.9
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: November 18, 2022.

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.

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 "..".