Container throughput at the Port of Barcelona reached 1.3m teu for the first half of 2017, an increase of 27.2% year on year, in an indication of a boost resulting from dock worker strike action in Spain.
With the likes of Algeciras having to divert vessels several times this year, the most notable increase occurred in transhipment containers, which rose by 101%. Full import and export containers were up 4.5%.
Import containers hit a new record of 276,529 teu this half year exceeding the pre-existing record of 272,138 teu which was achieved in 2007.
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