Review report

To Hamburger Hafen und Logistik Aktiengesellschaft, Hamburg

We have reviewed the condensed interim consolidated financial statements – comprising the balance sheet, the income statement, the statement of comprehensive income, the cash flow statement, the statement of changes in equity and selected explanatory Notes – and the interim group management report of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik Aktiengesellschaft, Hamburg, for the period from 1 January to 30 June 2019, which are part of the six-monthly financial report pursuant to Section 115 of the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG). The company’s Executive Board is responsible for preparation of the condensed interim consolidated financial statements in accordance with IFRS on interim financial reporting as adopted by the EU and for preparation of the interim group management report in accordance with the provisions of the WpHG applicable to interim group management reports. Our responsibility is to issue a report on the condensed interim consolidated financial statements and the interim group management report based on our review.

We conducted our review of the condensed interim consolidated financial statements and the interim group management report in accordance with the German generally accepted standards for the review of financial statements promulgated by the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer, IDW). Those standards require that we plan and perform the review to obtain a certain level of assurance in our critical appraisal to preclude that the condensed interim consolidated financial statements are not prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with IFRS on interim financial reporting as adopted by the EU and that the interim group management report is not prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with the provisions of the WpHG applicable to interim group management reports. A review is limited primarily to making enquiries of company personnel and applying analytical procedures and thus does not provide the assurance that we would obtain from an audit of financial statements. In accordance with our engagement, we have not performed an audit and, accordingly, we do not express an audit opinion.

Based on our review, nothing has come to our attention that causes us to believe that the condensed interim consolidated financial statements are not prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with IFRS on interim financial reporting as adopted by the EU or that the interim group management report is not prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with the provisions of the WpHG applicable to interim group management reports.

We issue this report on the basis of the engagement agreed with the company, which is based on the accompanying General Terms of Engagement for German Public Auditors and Public Audit Firms dated 1 January 2017, also with effect vis-à-vis third parties.

Hamburg, 30 July 2019

PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH
Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft

Claus Brandt
Wirtschaftsprüfer
[German Public Auditor]

Christoph Fehling
Wirtschaftsprüfer
[German Public Auditor]