In the first half of 2024, freight traffic in the The port of Bremen/Bremerhaven was on the rise thanks to the considerable increase in the volumes of containerized cargo. A a positive trend that continued last June when the German airport handled a total of 5.06 million tons, with an increase of +6.5% on June 2023 driven by by the +12.7% increase in containerized goods that amounted to to 3.83 million tons. On the other hand, both other goods are down which totalled 536 thousand tons (-10.7%) and the liquid bulk with 112 thousand tons (-13.2%) and dry bulk with 580 thousand tons (-6.5%).

In the second quarter of 2024, the German port handled 15.89 million tonnes of cargo, with a an increase of +9.2% over the same period of last year, of which 8.25 million tonnes at landing (+8.7%) and 7.64 million tonnes of tons on board (+9.8%). Total freight traffic was 11.92 million tons (+14.7%) carried out with a container handling of 1,102,497 TEUs (+9.6%). In the other miscellaneous goods sector, the total was 1.66 million tonnes (-5.9%), including 668 thousand tons of rolling stock (-22.1%), 561 thousand tons of steel products (+19.9%), 177 thousand tons of products forestry (+62.4%) and 256 thousand tons of other cargo (-22.4%). In the liquid bulk segment, 429 thousand were handled tonnes (-10.4%) and in the dry bulk sector 1.89 million tonnes (-10.4%) tonnes (-1.5%), of which 1.08 million tonnes of minerals (+4.4%), 120 thousand tons of cereals and other foodstuffs (-35.8%), 27 thousand tons of coal and coke (+350.0%) and 1.09 million tons of other dry bulk (-6.7%).

In the first half of this year, global traffic increased 30.92 million tonnes, up +9.9% on the previous year, first half of 2023, of which 15.76 million tonnes to the landing (+8.8%) and 15.16 million tons at embarkation (+11.0%). In the containerized goods sector, the total was 23.85 million tons (+17.2%) made with a container handling of 2,222,233 TEUs (+12.0%). The others miscellaneous goods amounted to 3.19 million tons (-5.8%), of which 1.28 million tonnes of rolling stock (-25.8%), 1.05 million tonnes of tons of steel products (+23.4%), 273 thousand tons of forest products (+7.1%) and 584 thousand tons of other cargoes (+5,8%). Liquid bulk cargo was 721 thousand tons (-13.4%) and solid waste 3.16 million tonnes, including 1.78 million tonnes tons of minerals (-11.0%), 227 thousand tons of cereals and foodstuffs (-32.8%), 37 thousand tons of coal and coke (-53.2%) and 1.83 million tonnes of other dry bulk (-8,2%).