In the third quarter of this year, freight traffic from the port of Bremen/Bremerhaven is amounted to 16.66 million tons, an increase of +5.7% on the same period in 2024 that was generated mainly in July when it was recorded a year-on-year increase of +13.2% followed by more contained by +1.9% and +2.3% in the following months of August and September. In addition, the growth recorded in the July-September period of 2025 has been produced by both the increase in goods at the disembarkation and those at embarkation, flows that were equal to respectively to 8.74 million tons (+6.1%) and 7.93 million tons of tons (+5.2%).

Robust growth in the third quarter of this year were miscellaneous goods with a total of 15.05 million tons (+10.7%), of which 12.84 million tons of cargo containerized products (+8.8%) made with a handling of containers equal to 1,240,576 TEUs (+12.5%) and 2.21 million tons of other miscellaneous goods (+23.1%), including 758 thousand tons of rolling stock (-1.6%), 675 thousand tons of steel products (+97.4%), 99 thousand tons of forest products (-25.0%) and 682 thousand tons of forest products tons of other goods (+23.1%). Traffic in new cars was 321 thousand units (-7.5%). In the field of bulk, on the other hand, was blamed for a global decline of -25.8% with 1.61 million tons of cargo handled. Bulk amounted to 346 thousand tons (-6.0%) and those dry waste at 1.27 million tons (-29.9%), of which 628 thousand tons of minerals (-30.0%), 113 thousand tons of cereals and food products (+32.9%), 25 thousand tons of coal and coke (+13.6%) and 846 thousand tons of other dry bulk (-27.6%).

In the first nine months of 2025, the German port handled a total of 49.22 million tons of cargo, with a progression of by +5.4% on the same period of last year, of which 25.74 million tonnes at landing (+7.3%) and 23.48 million tonnes tons at embarkation (+3.4%). Containerized goods were amounted to 38.27 million tonnes (+7.4%) and were made by handling 3,658,634 TEUs (+10.0%) and other goods amounted to 5.43 million tonnes (+9.0%). The liquid bulk traffic decreased by -17.7% falling to 896 thousand tons and decreasing was also the volume of dry bulk with 4.61 million tons (-7,1%).