Containerised cargo grew by 1.7% and 2.4% in tonnage if compared to 2019, previous to the pandemic.

Exports of Spanish companies operating in Valenciaport, played a strategic role growing by 22.7% with a total of 632,082 containers full of cargo up to 31 July, 116,880 more than in the same period in 2020.

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This growth is reflected in the dynamism of sectors such as construction materials, the agri-food industry, chemical and steel products and the automotive sector.

In these first seven months of the year, imports have also increased by 15.53% and transhipment by 7.61%. Between January and July of this year, ro-ro traffic was 14.36% higher than in the same period in 2020, and automobiles registered an increase of 5.35%.

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In the year-on-year data for August 2020-July 2021, – a period that is still marked by the complexity of the economic and pandemic situation –a total of 5.72m teu were moved, a number that is close to 6m teu per year.

Trade with China was the most important with a total of 356,389 teu at the end of July, 22.61% more than in 2020, followed by the United States, with a growth of 7.86% and 317,989 teu. In third place is Turkey with an increase of 10.74% and in fourth place is India with a growth of 38.18%.

The Far East is the first destination of containers with a growth of 14.55% compared to 2020, followed by the Mediterranean and Black Sea (+6.67%), West Africa (+34.65%) or Atlantic South America (15.59%).