In 2025, the growth of cargo traffic in the port of Bremen/Bremerhaven has been consistent and even in the last quarter marked a marked increase of +5.4% on the same quarter previous year, 16.06 million were handled of tonnes, of which 8.08 million tonnes at landing (+2.7%) and 7.98 million tons at loading (+8.2%).

In the fourth quarter of 2025, the overall increase in volumes of loads, moreover, was driven by an accentuation of of the growth in containerized traffic, which amounted to 12.93 million tons (+11.8%) and was built with container handling of 1,243,061 TEUs (+11.0%). Other miscellaneous goods remained stable with a total of 1.59 million tons (+0.3%), of which 784 thousand tons of rolling stock (+12.8%), 284 thousand tons of steel products (-15.0%), 112 thousand tons of forest products (0%) and 408 thousand tons of other miscellaneous goods (-7.7%). The handling of new cars is was 331 thousand vehicles (+9.5%). Bulk cargo fell sharply, with liquid waste amounted to 238 thousand tons (-54.8%) and solid waste at 1.30 million tonnes (-17.2%), including 736 thousand tons of minerals (-14.9%), 91 thousand tons of food products (+1.1%), 23 thousand tons of coal and coke (-8.0%) and 693 thousand tons of other dry bulk (-38.2%).

In the whole of 2025, the German port handled 65.28 million of tons of goods, with an increase of +5.4% on the year of which 33.82 million tonnes at landing (+6.1%) and 31.45 million tons at embarkation (+4.6%). In the field of total container traffic was 51.20 million tons (+8.5%) with a container handling of 4,901,695 TEUs (+10.3%). Other miscellaneous goods amounted to 7.02 million tonnes (+6.9%), of which 2.92 million tonnes tonnes of rolling stock (+6.4%), 1.64 million tonnes of steel products (-4.6%), 418 thousand tons of products forestry (-19.1%) and 2.04 million tonnes of other cargo (+29,1%). Car traffic was 1.25 million media (-0.1%). In the liquid bulk sector, traffic is 1.13 million tonnes (-29.8%) and in that of the dry bulk cargo of 5.92 million tonnes (-9.5%), including 3.12 million tonnes million tons of minerals (-12.1%), 501 thousand tons of food products (+24.6%), 77 thousand tons of coal and coke (-8.3%) and 3.36 million tons of other goods (-18.5%).