After the last peak recorded in the last quarter of 2014, last year, in the second quarter of 2025 the revenues of the Hapag-Lloyd declined further compared to the quarter previous to €4.63 billion, with an increase of +2.0% on the April-June quarter of last year. The only Containerized shipping segment has realized revenues of €4.54 billion, with a slight increase of +2.0% despite the volumes of container loads carried by the fleet of the German company have marked a substantial increase in the +12.4% having been equal to over 3.4 million TEUs, an increase which was counteracted by the reduction in the average value of maritime freight rates which in the second quarter of this year result equal to 1,324 dollars/TEU (-6.9%). The revenues generated by the port terminals of the group, an activity that is built under the Hanseatic Global Terminals brand, it is amounted to €119 million (+15.5%).

The costs of transport activities totalled €3.47 billion (+10.0%), including €1.80 billion in cargo handling (+19.7%), €457.1 million in related costs equipment and its repositioning (+15.4%), €615.1 million of costs relating to ships and voyages with the exception of the costs of bunkers (+9.7%), fuel and emissions costs that decreased by -8.6% to €606.3 million. The EBITDA was €711.2 million (-25.5%), with a contribution of €673 million from the maritime transport of containers (-26.9%) and 39 million from terminal (+14.7%). Operating profit was €156.0 million (-65.3%), with contributions from the two main business sectors equal to 136 million (-68.7%) and 20 million euros respectively (+25,0%). Quarterly net profit was €262.8 million of euros (-39.4%).

In the period April-June 2025, the largest volume of shipments was transported by the fleet on the routes between Asia and Europe and amounted to 1.01 million TEUs (+17.2%), an activity that generated revenues of 1.04 billion, with a decrease of -11.7% caused by the reduction in -20.0% of the average value of freight rates which was equal to 1,178 dollars/teu. On the transpacific routes were transported 995 thousand TEUs (+22.5%), activities that produced revenues of 1.24 billion euros (+1.8%) with an average freight rate that is was $1,427/TEU (-11.6%). The scheduled services of the companies on transatlantic routes have carried 720 thousand TEUs (+3.3%) and in this market revenues amounted to 946 million euro (+0.3%) with an average freight rate of $1,491/TEU (+2.3%). On the routes with Africa and on those intra-regional goods were transported in containers equal to 719 thousand TEUs (+3.9%) and this activity generated revenues of to €769.4 million (+9.3%) with an average freight value of 1,221 dollars/teu (+11.5%).