14. Other operating expenses
in € thousand |
|
2025 |
|
2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Consultancy, services, insurance and auditing expenses |
|
80,002 |
|
68,474 |
External maintenance services |
|
52,413 |
|
51,273 |
Leasing costs |
|
21,152 |
|
19,623 |
Travel expenses, advertising and promotional costs |
|
9,592 |
|
7,976 |
Other taxes |
|
7,240 |
|
27,068 |
Other personnel expenses |
|
5,949 |
|
4,831 |
Losses on the disposal of property, plant and equipment |
|
4,956 |
|
3,363 |
External and internal cleaning costs |
|
2,855 |
|
2,531 |
Impairment losses on financial assets |
|
1,717 |
|
2,096 |
Postage and telecommunications costs |
|
1,645 |
|
1,792 |
Expenses from exchange rate differences |
|
1,109 |
|
1,273 |
Other venture expenses |
|
1,017 |
|
1,570 |
Other |
|
29,003 |
|
23,072 |
|
|
218,650 |
|
214,942 |
Expenses for consultancy, services, insurance and auditing increased, mainly due to increased consultancy requirements.
Expenses for external maintenance services increased due to higher real estate-related maintenance expenses and higher maintenance expenses for equipment and facilities.
The decrease in other taxes largely results from the creation of provisions in the previous year for property transfer tax that was triggered by the completion of the MSC transaction.
For details of lease expenses, see Note 45.
The HHLA Group regards the impairment losses on financial assets listed above as immaterial and has therefore decided not to show them separately in the income statement.
Other operating expenses also include numerous smaller individual items.