Hapag-Lloyd again records record values of the items in the quarterly income statement and freight

In the second quarter of 2022, revenues amounted to 8.99 billions of euros, with an extraordinary growth of +91.9% on the same period last year. The most consistent was generated by the liner services of the company with Latin America which was equal to 1.90 billion euros (+103.5%). Following the revenues produced by the services with the Far East (1.74 billion, +66.6%), services transpacific (1.61 billion, +86.1%), transatlantic services (1.52 billion (+56.5%), from those with the Middle East (856.4 million, +93.6%), services with Africa (398.3 million, +132.0%), intra-Asian services (€280.8 million, +88.3%) and other maritime services (681.6 million, +80.0%).

A new record value has also been reached by costs operating operations amounted to €3.43 billion, with a however, much smaller increase of +37.7% on the second quarter of 2021. In particular, handling costs of cargoes amounted to 1.68 billion euros (+25.3%), those for the purchase of the bunker at € 786.0 million (+94.8%), charges for the management of ships and voyages to 586.5 million (+27.4%), the costs for equipment and its repositioning at 375.5 million (+30.7%) and personnel costs at € 217.0 million (+12.4%), to which €475.8 million in depreciation and amortization (+50.0%)

EBITDA was equal to the value record of 5.28 billion euros (+172.9%) and values never reached in EBIT was also recorded with 4.80 billion (+197.1%) and net profit with 4.48 billion euros (+194.7%).

If the economic results were at record values, do not the same was true for the volumes of loads containerized transported by the fleet of the German company that in the second quarter of 2022 they were yes high, having been equal to 3.02 million teu, but just below (-0.2%) to those transported in the corresponding period of last year year. Volume of loads that from the last quarter of 2020 results follow a slightly downward trend in the face of a contemporary sharp increase in transport tariffs. In the period April-June this year's volumes of goods in containers have been growing only those transported by transatlantic services (563 thousand teu, +5.8%) and services with Africa (166 thousand teu, +38.3%), with these the last who also benefited from the effects of the acquisition of the company Deutsche Afrika-Linien ( of 1 June 2022). On the other hand, the volumes transported by services are falling with Latin America (751 thousand teu, -2.0%), from those with the Extreme East (573 thousand teu, -3.9%), from transpacific services (430 thousand teu, -6.9%), from those with the Middle East (388 thousand teu, -1.8%) and from intra-Asian services (154 thousand teu, -3.1%).

Still amazing, however, the concomitant increase in value of freight. Globally in the second quarter of this year the value average sea freight rates were equal to 3,935 dollars/teu (+71.2%). The highest average freight is result for transpacific services (4,001 dollars/teu, +77.3%), followed by those related to services with the Far East (3,242 dollars/teu, +53.1%), transatlantic services (2,893 dollars/teu, +83.3%), services with Latin America (2,710 dollars/teu, +84.0%), to those with Africa (2,559 dollars/teu, +48.3%), those with the Middle East (2,357 dollars/teu, +74.3%) and intra-Asian services ($1,939/teu, +71.4%).

With regard to the trend in the value of freight, the CEO of the German company, Rolf Habben Jansen, specified that "currently, for some routes, we are seeing the first signs of easing the noli spot. However - he specified - we expect a good second half of the year."