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Containerized goods displayed growth of 31.69% in the 2nd quarter of 2025
Exports excluding hydrocarbons from the port of Algiers
In its latest assessment, the Port company of Algiers (EPAL) reveals that containerized goods at the level of this port infrastructure displayed growth of 31.69% in the 2nd quarter of the current year. Parel, indicates the same source, the traffic of landed goods increased by 15.99% compared to the 2nd quarter 2024, going from 1.703 million 1,976 million tonnes, mainly due to the importation into large number of sheeps intended for the sacrifice of Eid El-Adha.
Exports from the port of Algiers, noted the same source, recorded an increase of more than 42% in the 2nd quarter of 2025, compared to the same period of the previous year, thanks in particular to the increase in traffic of on -board goods excluding hydrocarbons.
Noting that the overall traffic of goods treated by EPAL reached 2.414 million tonnes in the 2nd quarter of 2025, against 2.011 million tonnes a year earlier, or growth of 20%.
“The tonnage of exported goods increased from 307,823 tonnes between March and June 2024 to 438,668 tonnes over the same period in 2025, an increase of 42.51%”, specifies the same source.
The March-June period 2025, underlined the same source, was also marked by a strong crowd of travelers with a total of 79,356 passengers against 56,737 in the 2nd quarter of 2024, representing an increase of 39.87%. An increase explained, in particular, by the competitive rates offered by new maritime transport companies.
Regarding the port yield, the same source reported a reduction in the stay of the platform ships and the treatment of goods.
“The average living room of ships at the quay fell significantly, going from 4.49 days to the 2nd quarter of 2024 to 3.44 days during the same period of 2025, a decrease of 1.05 days,” added the same source.
Ensuring that this performance shows the acceleration of the factories of handling our teams as well as optimal management of our resources, both human and material, in particular since the launch in February 2025 of continuous work (24 hours a day, 7 days a week), in accordance with the instructions of the president
From the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
During the meeting of the Council of Ministers he chaired on June 2, 2024, the Head of State instructed the government to design an exhaustive approach for a new port management strategy, to be subject to the Council of Ministers as soon as possible and ordered the Minister of Transport, concerning the measures taken to reduce the delays of port passage of imported goods, to redouble their vigilance and prudence Manipulations, in particular the policy of procrastination with regard to container control. Insisting, said a press release from the Council of Ministers, on the imperative compliance with unloading deadlines by strengthening capacities and control devices, able to release spaces at dry ports.
Abdelmadjid Tebboune, continued the same source, also enjoined to set up a coordination mechanism, in terms of pressure management from the waiting times at the port level, so as to reduce them to a maximum duration of 24 hours and ordered to reduce the pressure on the port of Algiers, in concert with the commercial maritime agencies, by directing part of the maritime traffic of the commercial ships ports of the country.
Rabah Mokhtari