January 28, 2025
“It is the second best handling result in the 65 year history of the Overseas Port, at 30.1 million tonnes“, states Dr. Gernot Tesch, managing director of Rostock Port.
Passengers
- 1 million cruise & ferry pax (140,000 more than in 2023).
- 57 million passengers on the three ferry services to Denmark and Sweden operated by Scandlines, Stena Line and TT-Line (+30,000).
- Ferry travel continued to increase last year. The number of cars and mobile homes carried between Northern Europe and Rostock went up to 666,000.
Investments
- EUR 18 million in 2024
- EUR 50 million in 2025, in infrastructure and in participations to strengthen the competitiveness of the port.
Cargo handling results at the Overseas Port
- Slight effect of the sluggish economy.
- RoRo (“wheeled”) cargo 16.5 million tonnes.
- Truck/trailer units carried on the ferry and RoRo connections to and from Northern Europe increased slightly to 517,000.
- The number of railway wagons carried to and from Trelleborg decreased mainly on account of building sites, from 26,800 in 2023 to 21,800 last year.
- The approach of ROSTOCK PORT to widen its range by establishing a port terminal for car handling has proven to have a stabilising effect for ferry and RoRo traffic.
- The share of wheeled cargo in the overall handling at Rostock Overseas Port was 55 percent.
- There was a slight decline in the handling of intermodal transport.
Source and more detailed info: Rostock Port
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