Brazil, Spain’s main maritime trade partner in Latin America, accounts for 46% of total cargo volume moved with the region
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Spanish ports Promote Trade with Latin America at the Intermodal Trade Fair
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Puertos del Estado and five Spanish Port Authorities are participating from today until April 24 in Intermodal South America, one of the leading logistics and transport trade fairs in Latin America, held in São Paulo, Brazil.
The Spanish delegation includes Puertos del Estado and the Port Authorities of Barcelona, Bilbao (Uniport), Bahía de Algeciras, Las Palmas, and Valencia, all located in the Spain Pavilion, coordinated by ICEX and the Spanish Trade Office in São Paulo.
The main objective of this participation is to consolidate and expand commercial flows between Spain and Latin America, a strategic region for the Spanish port system. In 2024, state-owned ports handled over 65.7 million tonnes of cargo and 1.7 million TEUs in trade with Latin American countries, confirming the region as one of Spain’s main non-EU trade partners.
In the first two months of 2025 alone, trade volumes with this region have already surpassed 9.6 million tonnes, highlighting the upward trend and strategic importance of this international event.
Brazil, the host country of the trade fair, plays a particularly significant role. In 2024, Brazil accounted for 45.9% of the total cargo (30.2 million tonnes) moved between Spanish ports and Latin America, and 37.9% of the TEUs (648,736.5 TEUs). This trend has continued into the first two months of 2025, with 43.4% of total cargo (4.2 million tonnes) and 37.2% of TEUs (92,000 TEUs), consolidating Brazil’s position as Spain’s main Latin American maritime trade partner.
Under the slogan “From our ports to anywhere you can imagine,” Spanish ports are presented as a global logistics platform, with an integrated network of infrastructure and services that includes over 340 km of quays, nearly 100 million m² of logistics space, more than 600 cranes, and maritime connections to over 200 international ports. This network is complemented by access to the Trans-European Transport Networks, making Spain the main logistics hub in southern Europe for international goods trade.
