In the third quarter of this year, freight traffic in the The port of Hamburg recorded an increase of about +3% being 29.0 million tonnes compared with 28.1 million tonnes tons in the period July-September of 2024. The main traffic flow, that of containers, marked an increase in the +3% with 20.1 million tons and 2.1 million TEUs handled (+5%), of which 1.3 million TEUs in import-export (0%) and 800 thousand TEUs in transhipment (+33%). Other miscellaneous goods, with a total of about 200 thousand tons, have suffered a decrease of -37%). In the bulk sector, 2.3 million tons of liquid cargo (-4%) and 6.1 million tons of dry loads (+5%).

In the first nine months of 2025, the German port of call handled a total of 86.8 million tons of goods, with an increase of +3.4% over the corresponding period of 2014. last year. Container traffic grew by +5.4% rising to 61.3 million tons made with a handling of 6.3 million TEUs (+8.4%), including 3.9 million TEUs TEU in import-export (+1.4%) and 2.4 million TEUs transshipped (+22,5%). Other miscellaneous goods amounted to 800 thousand tons (-7,4%). Liquid bulk traffic was 7.0 million tonnes (+7.4%) and in the dry bulk sector 4.2 million tons of products were handled (-10.3%) and 13.3 million tonnes of other cargoes (-1,3%).

The Port Authority of Hamburg announced today that the Growth in containerized traffic in the first nine years months of this year was driven by increases of +11.0% of volumes with Asia and +14.0% of those with Europe, while container traffic with the USA, which is affected by the effects of the of the new commercial policies introduced by the administration US federal government, marked a decrease of -23.9% dropping to 395 thousand TEUs.