Resumen de Spanish merchant marine and cargo movements at the Port of Barcelona in 1875
from the “Lista Oficial de los buques de guerra y mercantes…, 1875”, whose results are given in a table, and it is followed by a synthesis of the ships, ports of origin, goods and commodities carried by them, and other interesting details, which arrived to the port of Barcelona during the above said year. The data was published by the newspaper “Diario de Barcelona”, in the special Trade Section of the port of the city, which appeared in its usual morning and afternoon issues, of every working day. Unfortunately, the information about the ships leaving the port of Barcelona doesn’t detail the cargo carried by the most, or nearly all of them, because it is just mentioned as effects. Of course, a detail of the said effects could be obtained from other historical papers and sources, but it hasn’t been done because the desire of the author has been to limit this text to the data from the above said newspaper.
