Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is about to acquire 50% of the capital of Barcelona Europe South Terminal (BEST), the terminal company currently wholly owned by Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) of the CK Hutchison Holdings group that operates the container of the same name terminal at Moll Prat in the Port of Barcelona. This was announced by the Spanish newspaper "El Mercantil", specifying that The operation will be made official in the coming days to be completed by the end of the month.

In 2022, the BEST terminal handled a traffic of containers of approximately 2.5 million TEUs out of 2.8 million TEUs annual capacity of the terminal and compared to 3.5 million TEUs handled in total from the port of Barcelona.

In Spain, the MSC group, through its subsidiary Terminal Investment Limited (TIL), operates terminals in the ports of Valencia (MSC Terminal Valencia) and Las Palmas (Operaciones Portuarias Canarias - OPCSA). TIL and Hutchison are already collaborating on the construction of a new container terminal in the port of Rotterdam ( of 31 August 2022). Hutchison Port Holdings has entered the Spanish port market in 2006 by acquiring a majority stake in the Terminal Catalunya (TERCAT), a container operating company terminal in the port of Barcelona ( of 13 December 2005).