
Container traffic at Valenciaport suffers due to international geopolitical and economic uncertainty
In the first 10 months of the year, 4,336,957 TEUs (standard container of 6.1 metres in length) have passed through Valenciaport’s terminals, representing a 7.7% drop The biggest fall is in full transit containers, 292,434 fewer than the previous year, which represents a -14% drop. Import TEUs continue to show positive figures with an increase of 6.2% while export TEUs fall by 7.1% Between January and October 2022, total traffic amounted to 67.72 million tonnes, 4.5% less than in the same period of the previous year Source: Valenciaport The crisis in the world’s main economies and the geopolitical situation are leaving their mark on traffic at Valenciaport, Spain’s leading logistics infrastructure at the service of import and export companies. Specifically, in the first ten months of the year, this situation is reflected in a fall in the number of containers entering and leaving Valencia, especially those dedicated to transhipment. On the other hand, there have been notable increases in liquid bulk, especially for natural gas, and solid bulk. Similar circumstances are being observed in the first three European ports. Up to September, container traffic in the port of Antwerp fell by -5%, in Rotterdam by -4.4% and in Hamburg by






















