In the second quarter of this year, the growth in freight traffic in the port of Bremen/Bremerhaven which amounted to over 17.8 million tonnes, with a increase of +6.0% over the corresponding period of 2025. On the rise were found to be both miscellaneous goods, which amounted to 15.6 million tons (+5.6%), of which 13.7 million tons of goods containerized vehicles (+4.8%) made with a handling of containers equal to 1.3 million TEUs (+6.9%) and 1.9 million TEUs tons of conventional goods (+12.2%), both bulk cargo that totalled almost 2.3 million tonnes (+8.6%).

In the first six months of 2026, total traffic was 34.5 million tonnes, up +5.9% compared to the first half of last year. In the field of The total volume was 26.7 million containers tons of cargo (+4.8%) with container handling equal to 2.6 million TEUs (+5.7%). Freight traffic recorded an increase of +9.8% rising to 3.5 million tons. The handling of new cars is also increased by about 614 thousand units (+2.4%). The Bulk cargo handling has grown overall by +9.6%, reaching about 4.3 million tons.