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ANAVE SPANISH SEABORNE TRADE
in previous years, has advanced us data that allows us to include in this report an analysis of Spanish seaborne trade by trades and types of merchandise. For Spanish national cabotage trades we have use, in addition to data provided by State Ports, information from ports managed by the Autonomous Communities. During 2012 Spanish seaborne trade (imports + exports + cabotage) increased by 4.2%, up to 315.4 million tons (Mt). This figure does not include port traffic of cargo in containers in international transit regime, which increased last year by 7.2% up to 48.8 Mt. The trade that experienced the greatest growth was that of dry bulks, which increased by 12.0% and moved 79.7 Mt, followed by the liquid bulks trade, which grew more modestly (+2.8%) totalling 138.0 Mt. Finally, the general cargo trade grew very slightly (+0.4%) up to 97.7 Mt. Liquid bulks accounted for 43.8% of the total Spanish maritime trade in tons, general cargo for 31.