The port of Alicante regains land with merchandise traffic. It has been Thanks to a month of May in which the activity has increased by 20 %thanks to increases in virtually all its parameters. However, and despite this clear improvement, the activity continues 11 % below in the global computation of the year, in a dynamic that has a lot to do with solid bulk, which have descended accused. From the port institution, in any case, they are convinced that the situation, as already seen with the latest records, go balancing as the exercise progresses.
According to the data published this week by Ports of the State, that of Alicante moved in May 271,598 tons of goods, which represents a more than significant increase in relation to the same month of the previous year, when 225,710 were counted. The improvement has been practically generalized in all concepts, since 146,670 tons of solid bulk were computed in front of 120,796 last year; 120,927 of general merchandise compared to 100,890; and 108,923 of merchandise in containers compared to 92,069. The only descent, although very little significant, has been the liquid bulkwith 4,001 tons against 4,034.
In any case, and despite the significant improvements of May, merchandise traffic continues to be below in the global computation of the year. Thus, the decrease in the first five months of the year in relation to the same period of 2024 is 11.3 %, which has left the total merchandise in 1,174,461 tons. Something that is having to do, and much, the behavior of bulk. Thus, without going any further, solid bulk have retreated no less than 30 %to stay at 574,384 tons, while liquids have done it in 19.5 %, standing at 21,040 tons.
A cruise docked in the port of Alicante. / Information
The merchandise in general, on the other hand, has increased by 21 %, to 579,037 tons, while the one that moves in containers, One of the main bets of the Port Authority Directed by Luis RodrÃguez, it has grown by 17.1 %, until 524,843 tons. To this has contributed the implementation of new maritime lines of traffic of goods, the new terminal of the JSV company or the rail connections with Madrid and the logistics center of this shipping company in Miranda de Ebro.
From the port, they emphasize that the decrease in activity in the global computation of the year is due to the reduction in bulk, mainly limestone and slag, something that is explained in which The demand fluctuates a lot throughout the year. In any case, there is the conviction that the movement of this type of materials will tend to balance, to the point that it is trusting the year with amounts very similar to those of the previous year.
Passengers
In what is there is a positive evolution is in the transit of passengers, which At global level it has grown since the beginning of the year by 5.3 %until reaching 125,742. In the case of cruises, specifically, the increase has been 3.9 %, which leaves the figure at 75,959, while in passengers in transport regime it has been 7.5 %, to be 49,783.
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