In 2024, the Port of Rotterdam handled 435.8 million tons of goods, with a slight decrease of -0.7% on the year determined by the reduction in the volume of liquid bulk as well as those of rolling stock and conventional goods against of a resilience in the dry bulk segment and an increase in containerized cargo.

In the period October-December 2024, the sharper quarterly decline in goods for the year, being 107.2 million tonnes were handled, with a reduction of -2% on the last quarter of 2023. In the container sector alone traffic was 32.3 million tons (+1%), volume achieved with a container handling of 3.4 million TEUs (+5%). Quarterly rolling stock traffic recorded an increase of +1% with 6.1 million tons, while conventional goods, with 1.3 million tonnes, are decreased by -12%. The overall decline in liquid bulk cargo is -6% with 48.5 million tons handled, of which 23.8 million tons of crude oil (-8%), 13.2 million tonnes of refined petroleum products (-8%), 2.9 million of tonnes of liquefied natural gas (-11%) and 8.6 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas. tons of other liquid bulk (+7%). Total bulk was 19.0 million tonnes (+6%), including 7.4 million tons of minerals and scrap (-8%), 5.7 million of tons of coal (+13%), 2.8 million tons of agricultural bulk (+25%) and 3.1 million tonnes of other bulk dry (+19%).

In the whole of 2024, containerized traffic amounted to to 133.4 million tonnes, up +2.5% year-on-year with container handling that was equal to over 13.8 million TEUs (+2.8%). In the rolling stock sector traffic was 25.3 million tons (-2.1%) and in that of conventional goods by 5.8 million tons (-10,0%). In the liquid bulk sector, the following were handled 200.0 million tonnes (-2.7%), of which 97.8 million tonnes tonnes of crude oil (-4.5%), 55.6 million tonnes of petroleum products (+0.8%), 11.3 million tonnes of gas liquefied natural waste (-5.3%) and 35.4 million tonnes of other liquid bulk (-2.2%). Dry bulk cargo amounted to 71.2 million tonnes (+0.8%), with 29.7 million tonnes of minerals and scrap (+5.7%), 19.0 million tonnes of coal (-18.0%), 10.3 million tonnes of agricultural bulk (-2.7%) and 12.2 million tons of other cargo (+38.6%).