September figures, and with them, the accumulated during the first three quarters of the year, allows checking the recovery of the growth path of Valencia port in all its essential activities.
Valenciaport already moves more containers, cars, cruises and tons than last year, from January to September.
According to the latest Port Authority of Valencia statistics, the three ports managed by PAV (Valencia, Sagunto and Gandia) handled a total of 53,320,782 tons (more than 0.44% during the same period last year).
In the cumulative period until September, container traffic handled 3,536,654 TEUs, (+0,26%), that represents a return to the positive path of this type of traffic. These positive figures were due to an increase in foreign container traffic, which rose by 4.55%. Specifically, containerised exports rose by 5% to 803,109 TEUs while imports increased by 4.11% to 836,059 TEUs. On the contrary, the transit traffic slowed down 3.27% to a total of 1,870,486 TEU.
Containerised general cargo recorded a rise of 1.32%, with total traffic standing at 40,112,195 tonnes. This included goods such as construction materials which rose by 1.01% to 3.98 million tonnes; other goods which went up by 4.84% to 1.59 million tonnes; and chemical products which increased by 11.60% to 1.38 million tonnes.