News / Hapag-Lloyd eyes bigger profits as freight rates continue to rise

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On the back of rocketing spot freight rates, Hapag-Lloyd today upped its 2024 financial guidance after releasing unaudited first-half results.

The Hamburg-headquartered carrier issued an ad hoc advisory to the Frankfurt Stock Exchange saying it had raised its earnings outlook, “based on preliminary and unaudited figures” for the first half of the year which saw it achieve a group Ebitda of around €1.8bn and a group Ebit of €800m.

These compare with recorded 2023 half-year group Ebitda of €3.5bn and group Ebit ...