In the first four months of 2024, the trend of increase in the volumes of goods handled by the port of Bremen/Bremerhaven, which has been in place since last November and which is driven by the growth in container traffic. In the period January-April of this year, the total traffic was of 20.4 million tonnes, with an increase of +9.6% on the corresponding period of 2023, of which over 10.2 million tonnes of cargo at landing (+8.5%) and almost 10.2 million tonnes of tonnes (+10.7%).

The most marked increase (+17.3%) was recorded by the container segment, which totaled 16.0 million tonnes with container handling of 1.5 million TEUs (+12.8%). On the other hand, other miscellaneous goods declined with 2.0 million tons (-9.0%), of which 833 thousand tons of rolling stock (-27.6%), 63 thousand tons of steel products (+20.1%), 128 thousand tons of forest products (-28.9%) and 387 thousand tons of other miscellaneous goods (+18.3%). Decreasing also bulk, with liquid ones standing at 481 thousand tonnes (-6.4%) and solid tonnes to more than 1.9 million tonnes. tonnes (-14.8%), including 1.0 million tonnes of minerals (-20.5%), 154 thousand tons of cereals and foodstuffs (-30.9%), 22 thousand tons of coal and coke (-69.9%) and 1.2 million tonnes of other dry bulk (+2.0%).