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In the period 1962-1965, in full economic opening of the Franco regime, the Port of Cartagena stood out for its efficiency and for being the one that increased tons of cargo moved from all Spain, according to historical data analyzed by a doctoral thesis held in the bosom Of the Department of Financial Economics and Accounting of the Faculty of Enterprise Sciences of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT).

The researcher Manuela Guzmán Raja has studied the reports of the 29 Spanish Boards of Port that existed at that time and analyzed their efficiency based on the collection variables and tons managed in relation to the investments made and the personnel and operational costs of the Port activity.

"The Port of Cartagena is the only one that in all the models analyzed stands out for its excellent levels of performance compared to the rest of Spanish ports in that historical moment," summarizes the new doctor.

"During those years there is a general improvement of the productive change, especially influenced by a significant technological advance of the Spanish port system", adds the director of the research, Isidoro Guzmán Raja.

At present, the Port of Cartagena is the most profitable in Spain, according to the latest published annual accounts.

Regarding the period analyzed by the researchers, the tons transported have tripled since then, going from the more than 11 million average between 1962 and 1965 to 32.6 million in 2015.

In 1962 Cartagena was the port that more tons moved of Spain, quintupling practically the average of something more than 2 million tons that were loaded and unloaded by the set of the ports.

Around these figures was the port of Valencia, which is now the second with the highest tonnage, 70 million, and the port of Algeciras, which was barely relevant at that time with 116,000 tons, is today the national leader with 98 millions of tons.

The researchers of the Cartagena Polytechnic selected the period 1962-1965 for being the most remote with homogeneous accounts, provided by the Library of State Ports, and also have accessed, through the Documentation Service of the Port Authority of Cartagena, The data of the Port Works Board during the first five years of the 20th century.

In 1905, Cartagena moved 826,000 tons.

Source: UPCT