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For the first time in its over 60-year history, the Port of Rostock handled 30.9 million tons of freight in a single year. This represents an increase of 6.5 percent or 1.9 million tons compared to the last record year of 2022.
(Rostock) According to the Rostock Port and Seamen’s Office, an additional 1.3 million tons of goods were handled in other Rostock ports, such as the freight and fishing port as well as the chemical port in 2023. Thus, a total of 32.2 million tons were handled in the port city of Rostock in 2023.
“Given the economic environment, we are satisfied with the overall result for 2023, as it confirms the performance of all companies and authorities operating in the largest universal port on the German Baltic Sea coast. Despite economic downturns in ferry/RoRo services and harvest-related declines in grain, the overseas port was able to achieve a record result again, primarily due to the enormous increase in liquid cargo handling,” summarizes Dr. Gernot Tesch, Managing Director of ROSTOCK PORT. “Particularly pleasing is the strong growth in value-added intensive general cargo handling, the transportation of railway wagons, and the positive development in the new handling segment of automobiles.”
“In 2023, we welcomed nearly three million passengers on ferries and cruise ships at the overseas port and Warnemünde, around 200,000 more travelers than in the previous year,” says Jens A. Scharner, Managing Director of ROSTOCK PORT GmbH. “With 2.54 million passengers on the three ferry routes of Scandlines, Stena Line, and TT-Line to Denmark and Sweden, there was an increase of 40,000 or 1.5 percent compared to the previous year. In the cruise port of Warnemünde, 419,000 sea travelers (2022: 294,000) arrived and departed on 130 ship calls (2022: 139) from 30 cruise ships (2022: 30). On 103 of the 365 days of the year 2023, cruise ships from 22 national and international shipping companies docked at the Warnemünde port.”
20 Million Euros Investment in Infrastructure
In 2023, 20 million euros were invested in the infrastructure of the overseas port. This year, ROSTOCK PORT plans investments of over 50 million euros in infrastructure and participations to strengthen the port’s competitiveness.
Photo: © Rostock Port
