Hamburg Süd is Germany's largest privately owned shipping company. With a fleet of 177 ships, 30 of which are company-owned, and a container pool of over 340,000 units, it ranks among the 20 largest liner shipping companies worldwide. Hamburg Süd employs some 4,200 people around the globe.
Hamburg Süd currently offers about 50 regular liner services linking South America with Europe, North America, the Mediterranean region, Asia, South Africa as well as linking Europe with the Eastern Mediterranean and India/Pakistan, North America, the Caribbean and Australia/New Zealand, or Australia/New Zealand and the Pacific Islands with Asia, the Caribbean and North America.