The container shipping company Hapag-Lloyd of Hamburg will create a company to which it will confer the The task of supervising the management of port terminals which are part of the network of the German company and that are becoming - as specified by Hapag-Lloyd itself - the second The Group's most important business segment thanks the expansion of the presence in this market envisaged by the business strategy. An expansion of Hapag-Lloyd's presence in world ports, which has been considerably increased in the last months with the acquisition earlier this year of 49% of capital of the Italian group Spinelli followed in April the acquisition of 40% of the capital of the Indian J M Baxi Ports & Logistics and last month since the completion of the acquisition of terminal activities of the Chilean SAAM ( of 12 January, 19 April and 1 August 2023).

The new company Hapag-Lloyd Terminal Holding, which will become operational next January, will have based in Rotterdam and will be led by Dheeraj Bhatia who in the A few days ago he was appointed member of the Board of Directors of the German shipowning group and has more than 20 years of Experience in the field of containerized maritime transport having worked at Norasia Container Lines and CSAV prior to join the Hapag-Lloyd Group in 2014 to initially lead the activities in India.