Hapag-Lloyd: a 'pretty good first quarter' – but trend for 2025 'pretty uncertain'
As it presented its first-quarter financial results today, Hapag-Lloyd cautioned that any cargo surge following ...
Despite the pandemic, Hapag-Lloyd recorded a net profit of $287m in the second quarter of the year. This compares with a $56m profit for the same period of 2019.
And for the half-year, the carrier reported a net profit of $314m, versus $165m last year, a 90% jump in profitability.
At ebit level for the first half, there was an improvement of 28%, to $563m.
Chief executive Rolf Habben Jansen said the group had produced “a very solid half-year result, despite the coronavirus ...
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