In the first nine months of this year, freight traffic in the port of Hamburg was 84.0 million tons, with a decrease of -3.0% over the same period in 2023. Based on data from Traffic communicated by the Port Authority of the port in the third quarter of 2024 alone, the port handled approximately 28.1 million TEUs, down -1% on the quarter July-September last year. In the third quarter of This year, only containerized traffic remained unchanged having amounted to 19.6 million tonnes, type of goods that recorded a decrease of -2% if the volume handled is calculated in terms of 20' containers having amounted to about two million TEUs. Very accentuated the reduction of conventional goods which, with 319 thousand tons, have suffered a reduction of -20%. In the bulk sector 8.2 million tons were handled (-2%), of which 2.4 million tons million tonnes of liquid cargo (-4%) and 5.8 million tonnes of tons of dry bulk (-2%).