Valenciaport ended 2015 with total container traffic of 4,615,196 TEUs, representing a 3.90% increase over the previous year.
This figure beats its previous record and consolidates Valenciaport as the leading container port in Spain and the Mediterranean.
The rise in container throughput was mainly due to good performance in import-export (+6.11%) and transit traffic (+2.12%).
In terms of total traffic, Valenciaport handled a total of 70,083,977 tonnes in 2015, i.e. an increase of 4.44% over the previous year, registering the best ever traffic figures for the three ports managed by the Port Authority of Valencia (Valencia, Sagunto and Gandia).
Foreign trade also performed well with imports and exports of general cargo going up by 10.38% to 21.01 million tonnes. A breakdown of these figures reveals a 10.19% rise in exports, to 13.64 million tonnes, mainly boosted by buoyant traffic results to China (+4.80%), Saudi Arabia (+25.63%), the USA (+28.65%) and Algeria (+0.52%).
Imports also grew by 10.73% to 7,369,936 tonnes, with traffic from China (+1.68%), Italy (+22.89%), the USA (+1.54%) and Turkey (+22.63%) being particularly significant. Overall transit figures, meanwhile, rose by 4.82% during the year.