In the third quarter of this year, the Port of Hamburg handled approximately 28.4 million tonnes, with a decrease of -5% compared to the same period last year. In the Miscellaneous cargo, container traffic was 19.6 million tonnes (-2%), with a handling of two million TEUs (+2.4%), and that of conventional goods of about 400 thousand tons compared to 300 thousand tons in the period July-September 2022. In the liquid bulk sector, 2.5 million tonnes (-11%) and in that of the dry bulk 5.9 million tonnes (-16%).

Referring to container traffic, the CEO Port of Hamburg Marketing's Axel Mattern pointed out that "This result is only part of the picture overall, but shows that container traffic in the port of Hamburg is going through a period of recovery. Regarding the ports of the North Range - he stressed - we will be the only ones to show a positive result in terms of container handling in the third trimester. This shows that we are able to increase our market share."

Container traffic in Hamburg in the first nine months of 2019 2023 decreased by -7.4% compared to the corresponding period last year, 5.84 million TEUs were handled. Overall, the traffic of goods handled by the port in the January-September period of that only by 86.6 million tonnes (-5.6%).