After five quarters of consistent decline, in the second quarter this year's revenues of the German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd returned to slight growth despite the value of the in sea freight rates has decreased. Instead, it is continued the upward trend in the volumes of containers transported from the fleet.

In the period April-June 2024, revenues amounted to 4.54 billion euros, up +2.9% over the same period last year. The only revenues generated by the activity of containerized maritime transport amounted to 4.45 billion (+0.9%), of which 931.9 million related to trade with America Latina (-17.7%), 840.3 million to transpacific traffic (+23.4%), 795.1 million to those with the Far East (+14.6%), 711.3 million to those with the Far East transatlantic traffic (-23.9%), 379.5 million to traffic with the Middle East (+15.3%), 247.3 million to trade with Africa (-3.6%) and 135.2 million to intra-Asian (-1.9%).

Revenues from maritime transport activities were generated by a volume of transport equal to A total of 3.06 million TEUs (+3.2%), of which 756 thousand TEUs transported by services with Latin America (+4.1%), 565 thousand TEUs from those with the Far East (-1.4%), 555 thousand TEUs from services transatlantic liners (+8.6%), 533 thousand TEUs from transpacific services (+20.8%), 294 thousand TEUs from those with the Middle East (-17.4%), 175 thousand TEUs from services with Africa (-1.7%) and 192 thousand TEUs from intra-Asian lines (-2.1%).

Hapag-Lloyd announced that in the second quarter of 2024, the average freight value was $1,422/TEU (-7.2%), of which $1,731/TEU related to transpacific services (+1.0%), 1,521 dollars/teu to services with Africa (-3.4%), 1,516 dollars/teu to those with the Far East (+14.8%), 1,391 dollars/TEU to services with the Middle East (+37.7%), $1,379/TEU to services transatlantic liners (-30.9%), 1,327 dollars/teu to those with America Latin (-21.9%) and $756/TEU to intra-Asian services (-5.5%).

In the second, transport costs, with a total of 3.15 billion, recorded an increase of +11.9% to which they mainly contributed to increases in costs for the cargo handling (1.50 billion, +11.1%) and for the purchase of of the bunker (663.6 million, +27.7%). . EBITDA, with €954.2 million, marked a decrease of -25.2% and a decrease was also EBIT and net profit amounted to €449.9 million respectively (-44.3%) and €433.6 million (-56.9%).

The company's quarterly revenue growth the terminal division, which was Hanseatic Global Terminals, and which is subject to investment and expansion of activities thanks to especially to new acquisitions. In the second quarter of 2024, the division totalled revenues of €103 million compared to to six million in the same period last year.