The close of the 2025 fiscal year has consolidated a clear trend in the asset management of the Port of Las Palmas: specialization. The Containerization Index, a key barometer of logistics modernization, has reached 80.30% at the Port of Las Palmas, which represents an increase of nearly 3 percentage points compared to the 76.9% of the previous fiscal year. This ‘efficiency ratio’ confirms that the port is moving its cargo more profitably, reducing handling costs and improving turnaround times.The logistics gapLas Palmas acts as a high-profit center with that 80.30% containerization. Here, general cargo has been ‘packaged’ to the maximum, optimizing terminal usage. Arrecife and Puerto del Rosario present more modest indices, standing at 35.88% and 30.88% respectively. This technical difference is not necessarily negative; it reflects ‘last mile’ markets where roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) and bulk cargo still have a greater specific weight due to direct supply to local consumption.Transshipments: Multiplying the value of the TEUOne of the most curious and financially relevant data points of 2025 is the behavior of maritime-to-maritime transit traffic. At the Port of Las Palmas, discharge transits grew an impressive 29.02% in the annual aggregate. In balance terms, this means that the port not only serves the domestic market but has improved its competitive position as a container redistribution ‘hub’ (TEUs), capturing capital flows that could previously have been diverted to other Atlantic routes. Despite the tensions in global supply chains, the total traffic of tons at APLP remained stable, with a slight adjustment of -1.10% (28.5 million tons). However, thanks to the increase in the Containerization Index and the improvement in TEU efficiency (which grew by 5.26% in total), the profitability per ton moved is predictably higher than that of the previous year.
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