In the second quarter of 2025, freight traffic from the port of Bremen/Bremerhaven increased by +6.0% compared to the same period last year being amounted to 16.84 million tonnes, with growth that was more pronounced for goods on landing, which were equal to to 8.93 million tonnes (+8.2%), compared to that of goods which totalled 7.91 million tonnes (+3,5%).

In addition, the overall increase in cargo volumes was generated by the increase in the traffic of various goods that has been amounted to 14.74 million tonnes (+8.6%), of which 13.05 million tonnes million tons of containerized goods (+9.5%) made with container handling of 1,224,593 TEUs (+11.1%) and 1.69 million tonnes of other miscellaneous goods (+1.8%), including 737 thousand tons of rolling stock (+10.3%), 379 thousand tons of steel industry (-32.4%), 91 thousand tons of forest products (-48.6%) and 484 thousand tons of other cargo (+89.1%). Bulk decreased by -3.2% to 1.83 million tons, of which 914 thousand tons of minerals (-15.7%), 173 thousand tons tons of cereals and food products (+44.2%), 13 thousand tonnes of coal (-51.9%) and 1.0 million tonnes of other loads (-7.8%). Liquid bulk cargo suffered a significant reduction having amounted to 274 thousand tons (-36.1%).

In the first six months of 2025, the German port of call handled 32.55 million tons of goods globally, with a increase of +5.3% over the first half of last year, of which 17.00 million tons of goods at unloading (+7.9%) and 15.55 million tons of goods at unloading million tons of goods at embarkation (+2.6%). The total volume of miscellaneous goods was 28.65 million tons (+6.0%), of which 25.43 million tonnes of containerised goods (+6.6%) made by handling 2,418,058 TEUs (+8.8%) and 3.22 million tonnes of other miscellaneous goods (+1.1%). In the field of 3.35 million tons of cargo were handled solids (+6.0%) and 550 thousand tons of liquid cargo (-23.7%).