SHORT SEA SHIPPING

The Port of Barcelona handled more than 370,500 ITU of roro traffic (cargo loaded onto a ship on a truck, platform or trailer), up 2.9% year on year. This business segment includes the 235,400 ITU (+7.4%) recorded in ro-ro exchanges with the Balearic Islands, and short sea shipping (SSS) which channelled more than 135,000 ICU to destinations in Italy and North Africa. This represented diverting more than 135,000 trucks off the roads and onto the maritime mode, which is more economically and environmentally efficient.

With services to Civitavecchia, Livorno, Genoa, Savona, Porto Torres, Tangiers and Tunis, the Port of Barcelona confirms its leading position in SSS traffic in the Iberian Peninsula. In recent years the development of motorways of the sea - highfrequency and highly reliable SSS lines - has been very positive and has bolstered the Port's role as a model for this type of traffic: not only do they offer a more competitive alternative in terms of cost and time, but in 2016 they led to savings of 191,089 tonnes of CO₂.

ITU* _(U) TRAFFIC BY TYPE OF SHIPPING