Whereas the handling of both liquid and dry bulk contracted, by 16.4% year-over-year to 510 thousand tonnes and by 6.5% yoy to 1.39 million tonnes, respectively, general cargo advanced by 17.6% yoy to 2.95mt.
HHLA's facilities in Hamburg took care of 3,006 thousand TEUs, an advance of 6.9% on the H1 2024 result, while its terminals outside Germany handled 165 thousand TEUs altogether (+28.7% year-on-year).
"We never had such high passenger volumes, so many freight units, and such a sound result for the first half of a year," Björn Blomqvist, CEO of Rederi Ab Eckerö, commented to Ålands Radio & TV.
Though import traffic contracted by 12.2% year-on-year to 2.13 million tonnes, exports advanced by 13.9% yoy to 4.99mt, thus making the whole international trade served by the Finnish seaports rise by 4.6% yoy to 7.12mt.