The port of Gijón has ended the month of October with 13.88 million tons moved through its docks throughout 2025, compared to 12.97 million in the same period of 2024, which represents an increase of 7.07% compared to the previous year. In the overall figure for State ports, traffic has decreased as a whole by 1.6%, according to data recorded up to the month of September.
The growth in solid bulk stands out, which in October was 1.17 million tons handled, and which recorded a cumulative January-October increase of 12.23% compared to the same period in 2024 (11.2 versus 9.98 million tons). This growth is mainly supported by the iron and coal traffic of EBHI.S.A., which ends the month of October with a cumulative traffic of 7.09 million tons, 18.45% more than the previous year, and this despite the notable decrease in thermal coal traffic.
As for the solid bulk moved through the rest of the commercial terminals and docks, they accumulate 4.1 million tons, 2.9% more than the same period in 2024, with the growth in aggregates traffic standing out, and to a lesser extent, those linked to cement and clinker shipments. With these results in the handled tonnage figure, the port of Gijón ranked in September as the fifth among the ports that are growing the most in the entire State port system and in ninth place in absolute tonnage of goods handled, representing 3% of the total goods moved through the Spanish port system.
