In the first quarter of 2025, the port of Bremen/Bremerhaven handled 15.6 million tons of goods, with a an increase of +3.9% over the same period of last year, with only the loading loads that were almost stable having totaled 7.6 million tons (+0.7%) while those on board, with 8.0 million tons, marked a increase of +7.1%.

In the container sector alone, traffic was 12.4 million tons (+3.8%) with a handling of containers which amounted to almost 1.2 million TEUs (+6,6%). Other miscellaneous goods decreased by -5.7% to 1.4 million tonnes, including 548 thousand tonnes of rolling stock (-10.5%), 307 thousand tons of iron and steel (-37.1%) and 116 thousand tons tons of forest products (+20.8). Bulk cargo is also down liquid with 276 thousand tons (-5.5%), while the solid ones are grew by +19.2% to 1.5 million tons, of which 839 thousand tons of minerals (+19.7%), 124 thousand tons of cereals and food products (+15.9%), 16 thousand tons of coal (+60.0%) and 812 thousand tons of other dry bulk (+9.0%).

The Port of Hamburg also closed the first quarter of this year with a similar increase of +3.1% in total traffic amounted to 28.3 million tons. Growth has been driven by containers, which rose by +4.7% to 19.9 million tonnes with a handling of 2.0 million 20' containers (+6,3%). Other miscellaneous goods also increased with 350 thousand tons (+3.5%) and liquid bulk cargo with 2.3 million tons tons (+23.6%), while dry bulk cargo recorded a -14.3% decrease in agricultural products, which fell to 1.4 million tons and a decrease of -5.8% in other cargoes equal to 4.4 million tons.

In the first three months of this year, the German terminal group HHLA, which operates three container terminals in the Port of Hamburg as well as terminals in the foreign ports of Odessa, Tallinn and Trieste, recorded record revenues of 435.6 million euros, up +19.8% over the same period in 2024, of which 426.3 million generated by the port and logistics segment alone connected (+20.1%). EBITDA amounted to €73.5 million (+22.2%), EBIT of €32.5 million (+86.6%) and profit after tax at €13.2 million (+304.9%).

In the first quarter of 2025, HHLA's terminals handled a total of 1.54 containerized traffic million TEUs, with an increase of +5.5%, while transport intermodal transport carried out by the Hamburg-based company marked a increase of +28.5% having been equal to 496 thousand TEUs.