In the second quarter of 2025, the Port of Hamburg handled about 29.5 million tons of goods, with a increase of +4% over the same period of last year which was mainly driven by growth of +9% of containerized goods amounted to 21.3 million tons and driven by the sharp increase in the volumes of containers in transhipment that amounted to about 880 thousand TEUs (+26%) while traffic containerized in import-export, with over 1.3 million TEUs, has recorded an increase of +2%. The liquid bulk with 2.4 million tons (+4%). Bulk dry areas, on the other hand, fell by -8% to 5.6 million tons and in Other miscellaneous goods also decreased with 250 thousand tons (-12%).

In the first half of this year, the German port of call handled a total of 57.8 million tons of cargo, with an increase of +3.6% over the first half of 2024. The containerized goods alone amounted to 41.2 million tons (+6.8%) and were made with a handling of containers equal to 4.2 million TEUs (+9.3%), of which 1.6 million TEUs TEU in transhipment (+23.8%). The Port Authority of Hamburg has Container Traffic Growth Has Increased was mainly driven by the increase in volumes with the Far East (1.8 million TEUs, +10.7%) and those with the Baltic Sea (734 thousand TEUs, +20.8%), while among the main partners of the port there was only a decrease in the United States (275 thousand TEUs, -19.3%). Liquid bulk has increased by +10.3% rising to 4.7 million tons, while solid fell by -8.8% to 11.4 million tons.