2024-04-22 08:17:20
By traffic, solid bulk cargoes maintain their growth of 7.55 percent more and more than 2.77 million tons, led by agri-food merchandise with more than 1.6 million tons of cereal, soybeans and derivatives. Scrap metal has also experienced an increase of 133 percent and 31,826 tons, as well as chemical products with 53,200 tons.
In liquid bulk, the figures show a movement of 6.81 million tons and a percentage decrease of 3.48 percent, compared to 2023. The highest figures fall on crude oil with more than 3.6 million tons discharged , other petroleum products with more than 878,000 tons, diesel with more than 739,500 tons and gas natural which registers 671,000 tons unloaded.
In the rest of the categories, general merchandise accumulated a total of 198,000 tons with a decrease of 17.3 percent, while container traffic increased by 3.52 percent with 140,634 tons moved, almost double that of , in the accumulated figure for last month, whose increase in TEU figures is 18.7 percent.
The growth in the movement of live cattle stands out by 29.43 percent and a total number of 151,985.
In exports, the record is 2.3 million loaded tons and an increase of 6.63 percent; and in imports with 6.33 million tons loaded with a slight decrease of 0.88 percent.
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