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The combination of new container routes, the geopolitical situation and an increased need for Aarhus as a logistics hub are sending a record number of containers to Denmark's largest commercial port. The growth comes on top of an already extraordinary start to 2025.

Five cruise ships visit Aarhus in just four days in week 29 with a total of 16,298 guests. In other words, it will be the busiest cruise week of the year at the port of Aarhus, also bringing a record number of tourists to the City of Smiles.

The Port of Aarhus and the University of Southern Denmark are working on a project to spread eelgrass in the Aarhus Bay. After a year of plantings, a picture is drawn.

Denmark's largest commercial port will once again receive a weekly call of Mærsk mainliners on a direct route between Europe and Asia. In addition, Aarhus will also become a new intermediate station for goods going to and from Poland. Both new calls strengthen security of supply and increase business opportunities.

During 2025, the historic tug Jakob has had well over 1,000 schoolchildren from more than 30 school classes on guided sailing trips in the port of Aarhus. Demand for the trips was so great that as many as 62 classes did not reach it until the tours were sold out. The plan is to repeat the success in 2026.

Concrete technologies of the future are to be tested at the Port of Aarhus as part of a new project led by the Danish Technological Institute. The aim is to find new concrete technologies with a lower carbon footprint that simultaneously create habitats for marine animal and plant species in the constructions.