In the second quarter of this year, the trend continued decrease in the traffic of goods handled by the port of Hamburg which has been in place since the end of 2021. The Authority Port of the German port announced today that in the entire first Half of 2024, traffic amounted to 55.9 million tons, with a decrease of -3.9% on the first half last year. Only containerized goods remained stable having been equal to 38.6 million tons and were made with a container handling of 3.8 million TEUs (-0.3%), of which approximately 2.6 million TEUs in import-export (-0.2%) and 1.3 million TEUs in transit (-0.5%). On the other hand, the bulk with liquid bulk amounted to 4.2 million tons (-20.1%), the dusty ones to 3.4 million tons (-3.9%) and bulk cargo handled with buckets at 9.1 million tons (10.6%). Conventional goods increased by +4.3% having been equal to 585 thousand tons.

The German port authority specified that, among the top ten business partners of the Port of Hamburg in the container segment, in the first six months of 2024, traffic with Malaysia increased by +14.7% to 88 thousand TEUs, placing the nation Asian in tenth place. Traffic with the United States has continued to develop positively and, with a total of 341 thousand TEU and a growth of +9%, consolidated its second position. China remains in first place with a traffic volume of 1.1 million TEUs (-2.2%). In addition, growth continued (+26.7%) of traffic with Turkey in the last four years and now the nation is in twelfth place among partners commercial of the port of Hamburg having gained six positions.

In the second quarter of 2024 alone, with a total of 28.5 million tons of goods handled, the German port has recorded a decrease of about -5% over the same period of the last year, which was generated by the reduction in volumes in all product sectors, except bulk Dusty. In the container sector alone, the decline was -3% approximately.