After the -48.1% drop in revenues recorded last year year following the historical peak marked in 2022 with 34.54 billion euros, in 2024 the turnover of the shipping company Hapag-Lloyd showed a recovery in the +6.6% on 2023 having stood at 19.11 billion euros, of which €18.75 billion (+5.6%) generated by the core business of transport liner maritime sector and 401.1 million from the port terminal sector and infrastructure, with a marked increase of +114.4% mainly generated by the effect of the acquisition in 2023 of the SAAM terminals that have been included in the scope of Group consolidation as of the third quarter of 2023 ( of 1 August 2023). Ebitda amounted to €4.65 billion (+4.2%), with a contribution of €4.51 billion from the shipping (+2.2%) and €139.5 million from terminals (+203.3%). The profit was 2.58 billion euros (+1.9%), with a contribution of €2.51 billion from transport activities maritime (-0.1%) and 66.3 million from terminals (+301.8%). Hapag-Lloyd closed the 2024 financial year with a profit net of 2.39 billion euros, down -18.9% on the year previous.

Last year, the group's container fleet transported volumes of goods equal to a new all-time high of 12.47 million TEU containers (+4.7%), of which 3.38 million TEUs transported on transpacific routes and with Asia (+12.8%), 3.55 million TEUs on Asia-Europe routes (-1.6%), 2.73 million TEUs on the Atlantic routes (+4.5%) and 2.81 million TEUs from services with Africa and on intra-regional routes (+4.3%).

The German company announced that it recorded a average freight value of 1,492 dollars/TEU (-0.5%), with a freight rate of of $1,713/TEU related to transpacific services and Asia (+5.1%), a market in which revenues totalled 5.35 billion euros (+18.6%), with an average freight rate of 1,509 dollars/TEU for Asia-Europe services (+26.9%), a market in which revenues were results of 4.95 billion euros (+24.8%), with an average freight rate of 1,468 dollars/TEU relating to Atlantic services (-26.8%), market segment in which revenues amounted to 3.71 billion of euros (-23.5%), and with an average freight rate of 1,226 dollars/TEU for services with Africa and intra-regional services (-4.4%), where the revenues amounted to 3.18 billion euros (-0.3%).