The Port of Barcelona has updated its discounts policy for 2013. These discounts help to foster the implementation and increase in regular short sea shipping lines and transhipment in the Mediterranean, North and West Africa. 

China is already the world's largest producer and consumer of cars. The inflow of Chinese vehicles onto international markets and the increasing importance of imports herald significant global changes in the sector.

Barcelona has become a benchmark for short sea shipping traffic between Spain, Italy and North Africa. The new Grimaldi Group terminal is the base to develop new routes through the Mediterranean and to West Africa.