In the third quarter of this year, freight traffic in the The port of Rotterdam grew slightly by +1.8% being amounted to 111.2 million tonnes compared to 109.2 million tonnes in the same period of 2025. If the volumes of goods entering and exit from the port of call recorded similar increases having stood at 79.3 million (+1.8%) and 31.8 million respectively million tonnes (+1.6%), the overall growth was mitigated by the reduction in the volumes of miscellaneous goods that has been was offset by the rise in bulk cargo.

In the general cargo segment, the total traffic figure containerized was 33.5 million tons (-1.5%), with a handling of containers equal to more than 3.7 million TEUs (+0.3%); rolling stock, with 6.5 million TEUs tons, were stable, while conventional goods recorded a decrease of -14.3% to 1.2 million tons.

In the dry bulk sector, 17.5 million tonnes (+2.9%), of which 6.2 million tonnes of minerals and scrap (-1.6%), 5.2 million tons of coal (+10.6%), 2.9 million tonnes of agricultural products (-6.5%) and 3.2 million tonnes of other bulk cargo (+10.3%). In the liquid bulk cargo, the overall quarterly figure was 52.5 million tonnes (+4.6%), including 26.6 million tonnes tonnes of crude oil (+3.1%), 14.0 million tonnes of refined petroleum products (+10.2%), 3.2 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (+3.2%) and 8.7 million tonnes of tons of other liquid cargoes (+1.2%).

In the first nine months of 2026, the Dutch port handled 323.2 million tonnes of goods, 0.9% in more than the same period in 2025 (320.2 Mt).