Of these, 5.4m TEUs were taken care of in hinterland traffic (-1.8% year-on-year), while the remaining 3.3m TEUs in transhipment (+10% yoy).

Rail-bound container flows amounted to 2.79m TEUs (+8.1% yoy). Barges carried 128.5k TEUs (-17.1% yoy). Truck transports accounted for the remaining 2.48m TEUs (-10.2% yoy).

In total, the German port handled 128.7mt (+1.9% yoy), of which 73.8mt in import (+5.2% yoy) and 54.9mt in export (-2.2% yoy) traffic.

With 87.7mt (+1.3% yoy), containerised freight topped Hamburg's cargo turnover, followed by 21.6mt of dry bulk (+11.3% yoy; excl. agricultural products), 11.8mt of liquid bulk (+1.7% yoy), 6.4mt of agro-bulk (-14.7% yoy), and 1.2mt of break-bulk (+6.9% yoy).

"The war in Ukraine will have an impact on the throughput development of the Port of Hamburg. However, it is not yet possible to say to what extent the sanctions imposed on Russia will influence cargo handling. A realistic forecast for the current year cannot be made at this point in time because the pandemic could also continue to have an impact on global trade," Axel Mattern, Joint CEO, the Port of Hamburg Marketing, commented.