With the decrease -13,5% recorded last June, the port of Bremen/Bremerhaven closed the second quarter of 2023 with a bending of the -7,6% of the traffic of the goods that is piled to 14.55 million tonnes compared to 15.74 million in the same last year's period. The decrease, although marked, could seem not overly accentuated when compared to that recorded in the period April-June of this year by some others European and world ports most directly affected by effects on economies determined before the COVID-19 pandemic and then by the war between Russia and Ukraine.

At first glance it might seem so even for the airport German port sector, given that the volume of traffic handled in the second trimester of 2023 is lower than -18.1% compared to the one totaled in the same period of 2021 when it was felt still the impact of the global health crisis and is also -7.5% lower than in the second quarter of 2020 when The effects of the health emergency were at their peak. However the 14.55 million tons handled in the period April-June of this year are lower by -21.2% also compared to 18.46 million tons handled in the second quarter of 2019 when the health crisis was still to come and Even more distant was the war that began on February 24, 2022 with the invasion of Ukrainian territory by the troops of Fly. But the crisis of the German port is much more prolonged in time so that it is necessary to go back to before the crisis world financial of 2008-2009, and to be precise at the now remote second quarter of 2005, to find a volume of traffic, then 13.89 million tons, lower than that of the period April-June 2023.

The very long phase of crisis that the port of Bremen/Bremerhaven is mainly attributable to the long-lasting negative trend in the volumes of miscellaneous goods, and in particular in Containerized cargoes that constitute the core business of the German airport. In the second quarter of this year the total of miscellaneous goods was 12.16 million tons, with a decrease of -8.9% on the same period of 2022, with decreases -19.6% and -11.9% respectively over the corresponding periods of 2021 and 2020 when the effects of the health crisis were more intense and with a decrease of -23.3% on the second 2019 pre-pandemic year quarter. Loads only containerized have stood at 10,39 million tons (-8.7%, -18.6%, -17.7% and -23.6% respectively) and were made with a container handling of 1,005,546 TEU (-9.4%, -19.8%, -11.5% and -19.2%). In the goods sector conventional traffic was 1.76 million tons (-10.3%, -25.0%, +51.0% and -21.0%), of which 858 thousand tons of rolling stock (-6.9%, -9.1%, +53.2% and -25.5%), 468 thousand tons of steel products (+3.5%, -14.4%, +108.0% and -35.6%), 109 thousand tons of forest products (-46.8%, -50.7%, -6.0% and -23.8%) and 330 thousand tons of other goods (- 15.2%, - 48.5%, +15.4% and +54.9%).

In the field of new factory cars, the German port has enlivened 381 thousand, with decreases of -5.8% and -20.3% on the second quarters of 2022 and 2021, an increase of +58.8% on the second quarter of 2020 and a decrease of -30.75 on the period April-June of 2019.

Solid bulk traffic in the second quarter of 2023 was a total of 1.91 million tons (-5.9%, -18.5%, +41.2% and -6.6%), including 1,04 million tons of minerals (-2.2%, -7.9%, +50.7% and -19.1%), 187 thousand tons of cereals and food products (+5.6%, +12.0%, +37.5% and +39.6%), 6 thousand tons of coal and coke (-94.3%, -98.0%, -81.3% and -95.4%) and 1,16 million tons of other dry bulk (+10.2%, +11.1%, +23,160.0% and +8.7%). On the other hand, liquid bulk is growing that have totaled 479 thousand tons (+31.2%, +62.9%, -17.8% and -15,4%).

The overall reduction of -7.6% of traffic enlivened in the second quarter of this year compared to the same period of 2022 was mainly generated by the contraction of the -11.0% of loads at embarkation which were equal to 6.96 million tons, but also from the reduction of -4,2% of those on landing stood at 7.59 million tons.

In the entire first semester of 2023 the German harbour port of call has handled 28.14 million tons of goods, with a decrease of the -15.4% on the first half of last year, of which 14.49 million tons of cargos at disembarkation (- 14.7%) and 13.65 million tons at boarding (- 16.2%).