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Photo: KMJ · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
Reported fleet size
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No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
153,029
Summed over 3 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Hamburg Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft A/S & Co KG, widely known as Hamburg Süd, was a German container shipping company. Founded in 1871, Hamburg Süd was among the market leaders in the North–South trade. It also served all significant East–West trade lanes.
The shipping entity was formerly part of the Oetker Group, but was sold to Maersk Line in 2017.
In 2023, the Mark Livery and the red colour were phased out in favour of the Maersk brand.
Origin
Hamburg Süd was founded in 1869 by 5 named founders on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.


Founder
Carl Laeisz
1828–1901
Hamburg merchant and patron of the arts (1828-1901)
Photo: Christian Wilhelm Allers · Public domain · file

Founder
Carl Woermann
1813–1880
German shipowner (1813-1880)
Photo: Julius Geertz (creator of the original painting) · Public domain · file
Founder
Heinrich Amsinck
1824–1883
German politician
Founder
Commerz- und Privat-Bank
business
Corporate profile
Reported financials
Published company figures for a single reported year, shown together so they are comparable. Figures from other years are not mixed in — a page that pairs one year's revenue with another's assets misreports both.
Revenue
6.1bn EUR
Reported for 2015
Corporate structure
Owned by
Services and products
Fleet on record
Composition of the 5 vessels this registry attributes to Hamburg Süd. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
By shipbuilder
Delivery history
Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 5 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 5 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 5 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 5 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 5 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 5 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 5 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 5 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 5 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 5 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5290648 | Passenger vessel | — | 1900 | — | — | — | Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft |
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 5 vessels attributed to it here, Hamburg Süd is the 174th largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.
Germany is the country of registration for 147 commercial operators in this directory, among which Hamburg Süd ranks 25th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 640 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Germany.
Founded in 1869, Hamburg Süd is 157 years old. This directory holds 45 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
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Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q565050, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Hamburg Süd on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.