Seaborne trade · July 2026
€22.3bn
Tonnes by sea
17.2 Mt
Sea share by value
69.1%
Sea, year on year (value)
+5.6%
Spain — extra-EU trade by mode
Monthly since 2019, stacked by mode. Exports are valued ≈ FOB and imports ≈ CIF: the valuations are not identical. Source: Eurostat Comext (DS-059334). Compiled by EED Data.
Modal split
- Sea67.9% of value · 85.6% of weight
- Air13.8% of value · 1.6% of weight
- Road13.7% of value · 3.5% of weight
- Rail0% of value · 0% of weight
The gap between value and weight defines each mode: air moves little weight at high value; sea carries almost all the weight.
Partners in Spain’s seaborne trade
| Partner | Value | Year on year |
|---|---|---|
| China | €38.4bn | ▲ 8.6% |
| United States | €23.9bn | ▲ 0.5% |
| Morocco | €18.5bn | ▲ 0.6% |
| United Kingdom | €12.8bn | ▲ 4.2% |
| Türkiye | €10.7bn | ▼ 2.4% |
| Brazil | €9.4bn | ▼ 6.2% |
| Mexico | €8.2bn | ▼ 4.2% |
| Japan | €5.1bn | ▼ 0.1% |
| India | €5bn | ▲ 0.1% |
| Saudi Arabia | €4.8bn | ▲ 4.9% |
What travels by sea (Spain)
- 1.Mineral fuels and oilsHS27€45.1bn▲ 9%
- 2.Motor vehiclesHS87€26.7bn▲ 10.2%
- 3.Electrical machinery and equipmentHS85€16.2bn▲ 8.7%
- 4.Machinery and mechanical appliancesHS84€15.4bn▲ 6.1%
- 5.Plastics and articles thereofHS39€6.5bn▼ 2.7%
- 6.Fats and oilsHS15€6bn▲ 1.1%
- 7.Ores, slag and ashHS26€5.8bn▲ 9.6%
- 8.Iron and steelHS72€4.9bn▼ 10.2%
Rail in foreign trade
| Partner | Value | Year on year |
|---|---|---|
| China | €78m | ▼ 11% |
| United Kingdom | €34m | ▼ 4.7% |
| Switzerland | €18m | ▼ 5.2% |
| South Korea | €2.2m | ▲ 121.4% |
| Taiwan | €1.4m | ▲ 613.8% |
A note on reading this: rail’s near-zero weight here is structural — Spain has no operational rail link with countries outside the EU, and the bulk of Spanish rail trade (to France, Germany or Italy) is intra-EU, a universe in which Eurostat has not recorded the mode of transport comparably since 2001. Rail itself is measured in our rail observatory (INE and CNMC, in Spanish).
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