Last year, freight traffic in the port of Hamburg increased recorded an increase of +2.6% on 2024 rising to 114.6 million of tonnes generated in the first three quarters of the 2025, while in the last quarterly period the total volume of remained almost stable compared to the fourth quarter of the quarter of 2024 having amounted to approximately 27.8 million tons. In the October-December period of 2025, both containerized goods, which amounted to 19.8 million tons (+3%) with a handling of containers equal to more than two million TEUs (+4%), and dry bulk cargo with 5.8 million TEUs tons (+3%). On the other hand, liquid bulk cargo decreased, amounting to two million tons (-18%), and conventional goods with about 300 thousand tons (-24%).

In the whole of 2025, container traffic was 81.1 million tons, up +4.6% year-on-year previous, a volume that was produced with a handling of containers equal to 8.3 million TEUs (+7.3%). The port authority of the German port has announced that The increase in container traffic was driven by mainly from traffic with China (+6.5%), Malaysia (+84.3%) and India (+49.2%), and also with the Northern European region (Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden) which is important for traffic transhipment (+21.2%). Containerized traffic with states United States, on the other hand, recorded an opposite trend, with a decline of -25.6% that the port authority attributed, among other factors, the high tariffs introduced by the USA. Conventional goods are 1.1 million tonnes (-15.4%).

In the bulk sector, where with a total of 32.4 million tons was accused of a decrease of -1.7% on 2024, liquid cargoes alone marked an increase of +0.7% being of about nine million tonnes, while the solid ones, with 23.3 million tons, they decreased by -2.7%. In cereal traffic fell by -45.8% to due to the reduction in exports and a decline are fertilizers (-5.6%) and minerals (-4.3%) also performed. In growth in construction materials (+19.5%), other bulk cargo solid products (+17.1%) and chemicals (+16.3%).