Summer 2027 Internship Program

Hapag-Lloyd is a multi-cultural global liner and logistics company with 14,000 employees all over the globe all working together to ensure the flow of goods never stops. What does it mean to join a leading global liner shipping company? It means you’ll have access to outstanding technology and challenging job opportunities around the world. It means working for a company that cares about the environment, safety, and quality management. It means we set high standards. That’s how we’ve been setting the benchmark for more than 170 years. Now here’s your opportunity to become a part of what we do next!

Hapag-Lloyd is a company you’ll want to be a part of. WE MOVE, WECARE, WE DELIVER. These are the core values that drive and support us to keep growing and challenging the status quo; and a few ways they show up.

• Creating industry quality benchmarks
• Maximizing digitalization
• 251 modern ships, 11,8 million TEU
• 100% green power in main office site
• Committed to a culture of belonging
• Restructured organizational architecture
• Over 14,200 team members

About the Role
Set sail on your professional career development journey with Hapag-Lloyd, Region North America (RNA) this summer. Place your sails in position to “catch the wind” and be propelled into an endless sea of development experiences and networking building with us this summer. This internship will provide a high-level overview of the maritime, shipping and container industry. It will also provide you with a deep dive, focus, in a specific area, within our Sales, Business Administration, Operations or US Flag division. The intimate design of this internship will facilitate opportunities to build relationships, network, have up close and personal interactions with various Senior Leaders and execute a project to maximize exposure while showcasing proficient skills.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Seek to understand the overall concept of the company, including the brand, customer, product 
  goals, and all other aspects of the business.
• Lean into the assigned division of responsibility and provides ideas to grow and improve the 
  business.
• Accepts designated, business-focus projects to research, propose ideas and solutions, and present 
  final project during the internship.
• Engages with customers or clients and provides service and/or sales.
• Provide suggestions to management for improving customer service and internal processes.
• Learns and becomes proficient on internal
• Assists in creating performance reports.

Qualifications

Intern Qualifications

• Demonstrated proficiency in the following skills and characteristics are baseline intern eligibility
• Interpersonal
• Verbal/ Non-Verbal/ Written communication
• Collaboration
• Innovation and Curiosity
• Organization and attention to detail
• Quick Learner and Agile
• Professionalism
• Customer focus
• Confidentiality

 

Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements:

• College students - Preferably in 3rd or 4th year of college undergraduate or grad program

Working Conditions
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job the incumbent is regularly required to sit, talk and hear. The incumbent regularly uses hands and fingers in the course of daily job duties, including the use of a personal computer. The vision requirement includes close vision. May incur mental stress due to time deadlines. May need to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

About UsHapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies, connecting businesses and people across more than 600 ports worldwide. With a fleet of over 300 modern container ships and a vessel capacity of 2.5 million TEU, we keep global trade moving reliably every day.
Our global network spans 139 countries, 396 offices and a growing portfolio of terminal and infrastructure investments. This scale enables us to deliver consistent, high-quality service across continents and to support our customers in even the most complex supply chains.
When you join us, you become part of more than 19,600 colleagues working across borders, functions and cultures, to not only deliver quality for our customers, but to create innovation and opportunities across roles, regions and perspectives.
We believe that every exploration is a chance to grow, and every port is a place to belong.