Upper Elbe ports with less goods throughput

According to Loroff, the navigability of the Elbe puts pressure on the balance sheet when no economical transports are possible for months, as was the case last fall. "The implementation of the overall Elbe concept is not really getting off the ground," he criticized. In addition, there are no more ships and there are "enormous quantities of goods" in the seaports that need to be transported in other ways. At the moment, when the water level is higher, larger ships can be used, "but that is no longer possible at normal water levels". According to him, last year 200,000 tons had to be unloaded from ships in Magdeburg alone and transported to the Czech Republic by truck due to a lack of freight space on the Upper Elbe. The river therefore needed regulation and water management.

According to the SBO, the three Saxon ports of Dresden, Riesa and Torgau achieved a "good result" with almost 2 million tons of goods handled, with ship handling in particular increasing. In the port of Torgau alone, 102 ships were loaded with almost 32,000 tons of gravel. Container handling at the port of Riesa was slightly higher at 33,748 units. Heavy cargo such as turbines, transformers and generators were loaded at the ports of Dresden and Lovosice.