Emphasized contraction of the economic results of the shipowning group Hapag-Lloyd



The shipowning group German Hapag-Lloyd has concluded 2016 with a decided regression of the economic results. The exercise anniversary has been archived item with revenues that, the preliminary data I am second diffused today by the company of Amburgo, have been pairs to beyond 8,5 billion dollars, down of the -13% regarding 9,8 billion dollars in 2015. The EBITDA has turned out pairs to 671 million dollars (- 27%) and the operating profit is diminished of the -66% attesting to 140 million dollars.

Last year the fleet of portacontainer of the group has transported cargo volumes opens to 7,6 million container teu, with a progression of +3% on 2015. The data of 2016 beginning from includes on 30 September also the transported cargo volumes from the ships of the United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), Middle Eastern company that in July has agreed an agreement of fusion with Hapag-Lloyd that has determined the union of the two fleets constituted respective from 59 and 166 ships for have a total cargo ability pairs to 1,5 million teu ( on 18 July 2016).

In entire the 2016 fleets of UASC and Hapag-Lloyd they have transported altogether cargo volumes pairs to 9,9 million teu, of which 1,6 million on the routes ocean-going liners, 1,8 million on those transpacifiche, 2,4 million teu on the routes with the Far East, 2,3 million from the marine services for the Latin America, 1,2 million teu on the routes intra-Asians and 500 thousand teu on those for region EMEA (Europe - Mediterranean - Africa - Oceania).

Hapag-Lloyd has announced to have recorded in a 2016 medium level of the hires for container teu transported pairs to 1.036 dollars, inferior of the -15% regarding the year precedence. In emphasized decrease it has turned out also the average cost of the bunker that in 2016 is piled to 210 dollars/ton (- 33%).

We remember that in the spring of the 2016 Hapag-Lloyd it has constituted called alliance THE Alliance with other shipowners in order to coordinate the offer on the marine routes East-West with beginning from the April of 2017 ( on 13 May 2016). To the initiative they had joined the taiwanese company Yang Ming, the Japanese Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ("K" Linens), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and the Hanjin Shipping South Korean. This last meantime is failed and in recent days it is placed in liquidation ( on 17 February 2017). Moreover the slid autumn the three Japanese companies have announced the fusion of the respective activities in the field of the containerized marine transport ( on 31 October 2016).

From next April THE Alliance it will put in field a fleet of beyond 240 portacontainer for a total cargo ability pairs to about 3,5 million teu, that is 17% about of the total ability to world-wide the containerized fleet. The contribution of Hapag-Lloyd to the ability to the alliance will be pairs to 45% of the total, that of the Japanese "K" Linens, MOL and NYK will be pairs to 39% and that of Yang Ming will consist in 16% of the total.