The Dutch HL Terminal Holding (HLTH), the society integrally controlled by the German company Hapag-Lloyd that operates as terminalista with the brand Hanseatic Global Terminals (HGT), has signed a preliminary agreement with the compatriot Eurogate, that is a joint venture between the German Eurokai and BLG Logistics, to acquire 20% of the social capital of the Eurogate Container Terminal Hamburg (CTH), society currently integrally controlled from the Eurogate

Currently in the harbour port of call German HGT is already present through a participation of 25.1% in the terminalista society Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA) while the remaining 74.9% is held from the Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) that in the port of Amburgo also manages the container terminal Burchardkai and Tollerort. The understanding also includes investment commitments previewed for the enlargement west of the CTH terminal, that currently has a ability to traffic pairs to 2,5 million teu per year.

Within the framework of the agreement is previewed also a variation of the stock structure of the Tanger Alliance, the society that manages the Container Terminal 3 of the Moroccan port of Tanger Med that currently sees shareholders the Marsa Maroc with 50% of the capital plus an action together with Hapag-Lloyd with 10% of the capital and the remaining 40% less an action in hand to Eurogate and Contship Italy, this last participated to 66.6% The operation provides that HLTH acquires 10% of the Tanger Alliance, which will be ceded by Eurogate that will yield another 10% to Eurokai, maintaining unchanged the participation of Eurokai in the Tanger Alliance. Therefore, the share of the group Hapag-Lloyd in the Moroccan terminalista society will rise to 20%.

The parties provide that the agreement will be finalized during the third quarter of this year.

Eurokai, moreover, has specified that continue the negotiations with the CMA Terminals of the French shipowning group CMA CGM in order to give it 20% of the capital of Eurogate Container Terminal Hamburg, negotiations that preview also engagements on the investment in order to widen the terminal to the west(of 13 November 2025).