Due to a more pronounced reduction in traffic in the second quarter of this year, equal to about -4% over the same period in 2025, which followed a decline in -2% in the previous quarter, the Port of Hamburg closed the first half of 2026 with a decrease of -3.1% in traffic total of goods compared to the first half of last year year having handled a total of 56.1 million tons of cargo. In the container sector alone, traffic half-yearly report, amounting to less than 40 million tonnes, marked a decrease of -3.7% and was achieved with a handling of containers equal to 4.0 million TEUs (-3.7%), with marked increases in flows with Singapore (+13.1%), Finland (+24.7%) and India (+7.2%) and a sharp reduction of -13.5% in the containerized traffic with the USA, with decreases also in flows with China and the United Kingdom. Conventional freight traffic, with 535 thousand tons, marked a decrease of -5.0% on the first semester of 2025. In the bulk sector, the following were handled 15.9 million tonnes (-1.1%), of which four million tonnes tonnes of liquid bulk (-14.0%) and 11.9 million tonnes of dry bulk (+4.2%).