In the last quarter of 2023, the downward trend of freight traffic in the port of Bremen/Bremerhaven arrested as 15.2 million were handled in the period tonnes, similar to that achieved in the quarter October-December 2022. The stable figure is the result of the +2.6% increase in unloaded cargoes of over 7.8 million tonnes, which offset the -2.6% decline of those at loading amounted to 7.4 million tonnes.

In the fourth quarter of 2023, containerized cargoes are grew globally by +8.4% to 11.9 million tonnes, with container handling that is amounted to 1.13 million TEUs (+2.6%). Other miscellaneous goods are -26.4% to 1.6 million tonnes, of which 747 thousand tons of rolling stock (-21.9%), 375 thousand tons of metallurgical products (-23.9%), 101 thousand tons of products forestry (-65.1%) and 348 thousand tons of other goods (-12.1%). The The handling of new cars was 343,000 vehicles (-21,0%). There is also a sharp decrease in bulk, with cargoes liquids totalling 340 thousand tonnes (-14.6%) and dry bulk over 1.4 million tonnes (-17.0%), including 662 thousand tons of minerals (-15.6%), 119 thousand tons of cereals and foodstuffs (-28.7%), 116 thousand tons of coal and coke (+9.4%) and 890 thousand tons of other solid bulk (-18,0%).

In the whole of 2023, the German port handled 58.5 million tonnes of goods, with a reduction of -8.6% compared to the previous year, of which 30.2 million tonnes of cargo at landing (-7.5%) and 28.3 million tonnes of tonnes at loading (-9.8%). Container traffic alone is amounted to 42.9 million tonnes (-7.6%) with a container handling of almost 4.2 million TEUs (-8.6%) and that of other miscellaneous goods at 6.7 million tonnes (-17.9%). In the liquid bulk segment, more than 1.6 million euros were handled. million tonnes (-1.0%) and in that of dry bulk over 7.1 million tonnes (-6.8%).