The German port took care of 6.5m TEUs (+2.4% year-on-year), of which 3.3m (+1.9% yoy) were in import, while 3.2m (+2.9% yoy) were handled in export traffic.

Tonnage-wise, containerised freight totalled 65.2mt, up by 1.5% yoy.

The port's railborne container traffic totted up to 2.1m TEUs (+8.3% yoy), including a new all-time quarterly high of 709k twenty-foot containers.

Some 29.7mt (+6.1% yoy) of bulk cargoes went through Hamburg's quays, including 16.3mt (+17.8% yoy) of ore and coal imports, 8.7mt (+0.9% yoy) of liquid bulk, and 4.7mt (-15.1% yoy) of other dry bulk.

With 908kt, break-bulk was up 5.2% on the January-September 2020 result.