Barcelona’s throughput rockets by 32% in 2017

Container traffic at Spain’s Port of Barcelona shot up by 32.3% in 2017 after the facility handled nearly 3m teu.

The growth, which led to Barcelona dubbing itself ‘the fastest growing European port’, was largely influenced by a sharp rise of 137% in transhipment containers.

Elsewhere import traffic grew by 8.3% to 561,103 teu and export traffic grew by 2.6% to 705,204 teu.