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Ports of Catalonia. Movements of vessels and goods

Ports of Catalonia. Movements of vessels and goods 2021
Barcelona Tarragona Ports of the Generalitat Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Movement of vessels 7,520 2,618 286 10,424 138,791 7.5
Gross tonnage (thousands) 267,734 42,613 1,566 311,913 2,001,643 15.6
Movement of goods (thousands of tons) 64,999 31,141 1,487 97,627 532,247 18.3
General goods 48,169 2,282 131 50,582 276,250 18.3
Wholesale solids 4,460 7,744 1,356 13,560 85,068 15.9
Wholesale liquids 12,371 21,115 0 33,486 170,928 19.6
Movement of containers (thousands of TEU) 3,531 55 0 3,586 17,712 20.2
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.

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 "..".