Shipments of Spanish wine by ship, mainly through Barcelona and Valencia, increased more than 40% in the first half of the year

In the first half of this year 2021, total exports of wines and viticultural products (including flavored wines, musts and vinegars) reached 15.2 million hectoliters, worth 1,574.8 million euros. Its extraordinary growth in this period was, respectively, 27.3% in volume and 17.5% in value, compared to the first half of the severe year of the 2020 pandemic. Although to a lesser extent, these export figures are also very positive when compared with those of the same semesters of previous years 99.5% of the value of our wine and 99.7% of it go to foreign markets by road or boat, as reflected in a recent study by the Spanish Observatory of the Wine Market. The main route of transport is the highway, where 51.9% of the value of our wines and 69.4% of the volume are exported. In the first half of this year, these percentages amount to 816.8 million euros and 10.58 million hectoliters respectively. On the other hand, shipments by sea in this period amounted to 4.6 million hectoliters ...