Half-year Financial Report January – June 2024

Employees

Employees by segment

 

 

30.06.2024

 

31.12.2023

 

Change

Container

 

3,056

 

3,104

 

- 1.5 %

Intermodal

 

2,860

 

2,720

 

5.1 %

Holding/Others

 

585

 

596

 

- 1.8 %

Logistics

 

276

 

269

 

2.6 %

Real Estate

 

100

 

100

 

0.0 %

HHLA Group

 

6,877

 

6,789

 

1.3 %

At the end of the first half of 2024, HHLA employed a total of 6,877 people. Compared with 31 December 2023, the number of employees rose by 88.

Employees by segment

In the Container segment, the number of staff decreased slightly year-on-year to 3,056. In the Intermodal segment, headcount rose by 140 to 2,860. This strong increase in the Intermodal segment is partly due to the first-time consolidation of Roland Spedition GmbH (Austria), as well as the growth in headcount at the METRANS Group. By contrast, the number of employees in the strategic management holding segment Holding/Other decreased by 11 to 585. In the Logistics segment, the number of employees rose by 7. Overall, headcount of the HHLA Group rose by 88, or 1.3 %.

Employees by region

As of the reporting date, the workforce was concentrated mainly in Germany, with 3,661 staff members (31 December 2023: 3,678), more than half of whom worked in Hamburg. This corresponds to a share of 53.2 % (31 December 2023: 54.2 %). The number of staff employed abroad rose by 105, or 3.4 %, to 3,216 in the first half of 2024 (31 December 2023: 3,111). Headcount at the Intermodal companies in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary increased by 46, or 2.3 %, to 2,055 (31 December 2023: 2,009). The number of staff employed by the subsidiaries in Poland, Estonia, Italy, Austria, Turkey, Serbia and Georgia increased by 75, or 10.4 %, to 798 (31 December 2023: 723). In Ukraine, the number of employees decreased by 16 to 363 (31 December 2023: 379).