Transport – Maritime transport
| Shipping area | Transhipment 2008 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| total | Dispatch | Receipt | |
| 1,000 t | |||
| Traffic inside Germany | 8,118 | 3,976 | 4,142 |
| Incl.: | |||
| Lower Saxony | 1,873 | 816 | 1,057 |
| Schleswig-Holstein, North Sea | 1,241 | 564 | 677 |
| Traffic with ports outside Germany | 312,518 | 119,938 | 192,580 |
| Europe | 182,054 | 67,696 | 114,358 |
| European Union | 129,514 | 55,471 | 74,042 |
| Other Europe | 52,540 | 12,225 | 40,316 |
| OstBaltic Sea regionseegebiet | 99,906 | 41,351 | 58,556 |
| Incl.: | |||
| Denmark, Baltic Sea | 10,657 | 5,455 | 5,202 |
| Sweden | 28,613 | 13,132 | 15,481 |
| Poland | 6,241 | 3,498 | 2,743 |
| Northern Europe | 53,828 | 12,171 | 41,657 |
| Incl.: | |||
| Norway | 25,919 | 3,531 | 22,387 |
| Denmark, North Sea | 290 | 67 | 222 |
| United Kingdom | 24,390 | 7,320 | 17,071 |
| Total | 320,628 | 123,914 | 196,722 |
| Shipping area | Embarking and Disembarking passengers 2008 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| total | Regions of embarking/disembarking | |||||
| Schleswig- Holstein | Hamburg | Lower Saxony | Bremen/ Bremerhaven | Mecklenburg- Vorpommern | ||
| 1,000 | ||||||
| Traffic inside Germany | 15,881 | 5,448 | 61 | 10,324 | 2 | 46 |
| Incl.: | ||||||
| Lower Saxony | 10,453 | 146 | - | 10,307 | - | - |
| Schleswig-Holstein, North Sea | 5,316 | 5,242 | 57 | 17 | 0 | - |
| Traffic with ports outside Germany | 13,064 | 9,245 | 65 | 0 | 98 | 3,656 |
| Europe | 13,061 | 9,245 | 63 | 0 | 98 | 3,656 |
| European Union | 11,884 | 8,150 | 32 | 0 | 73 | 3,629 |
| Other Europe | 1,177 | 1,095 | 30 | - | 25 | 27 |
| OstBaltic Sea regionseegebiet | 11,435 | 7,815 | 4 | - | 19 | 3,598 |
| Incl.: | ||||||
| Denmark, Baltic Sea | 8,619 | 6,865 | 2 | - | 5 | 1,748 |
| Sweden | 2,067 | 740 | 1 | - | 7 | 1,318 |
| Poland | 300 | 10 | 1 | - | 3 | 285 |
| Northern Europe | 1,540 | 1,415 | 48 | 0 | 40 | 36 |
| Incl.: | ||||||
| Norway | 1,155 | 1,078 | 30 | - | 22 | 25 |
| Denmark, North Sea | 324 | 323 | - | - | - | - |
| United Kingdom | 61 | 14 | 18 | 0 | 18 | 11 |
| Total | 28,945 | 14,693 | 126 | 10,324 | 100 | 3,702 |
