Mediterranean Transport Corporate (MSC) is owned through Italy’s Aponte circle of relatives. Its subsidiary, Port of Hamburg Beteiligungsgesellschaft, has gained approval to take a 49.9% stake in German terminal operator team Hamburger Hafen und Logistik (HHLA).
The town of Hamburg, whose parliament authorized the deal, will retain the rest 50.1% stake. The deal nonetheless wishes the EU Fee’s popularity of the purchase to head forward.
Hamburg and MSC will each arrange HHLA as a three way partnership with MSC gaining a 40-year contract for the three way partnership.
MSC is owned through the Italian Aponte circle of relatives, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. It has places of work in 155 international locations.
HHLA operates and owns 3 of the 4 container terminals on the Port of Hamburg, in addition to a big portion of the port itself. Those come with the Container Terminal Burchardkai, the Container Terminal Altenwerder and the Container Terminal Tollerort.
With the exception of the ones, the corporate additionally owns Container Terminal Odessa, in Ukraine and Container Terminal Estonia in Tallinn. HHLA additionally has multi-purpose and roll-on-roll-off (RoRo) amenities in Hamburg, Trieste and Tallinn.
The takeover be offering for HHLA used to be first published remaining September, with MSC highlighting that the deal would lend a hand building up and increase the container-handling amenities on the port of Hamburg.
On the other hand, the deal used to be additionally met with resistance together with from business unions corresponding to Ver.di, who had been involved in activity losses. The Hamburg and Bremerhaven ports have lately noticed a variety of employee moves over pay disputes.
HHLA launches first check box for hydrogen-powered port logistics
HHLA lately made strides in decarbonising logistics, through introducing its first check box for hydrogen-powered port logistics. This used to be completed in partnership with Blank Port & Logistics (CPL). HHLA additionally introduced a hydrogen refuelling station on the Hamburg port.
The above strikes will lend a hand the corporate extra unexpectedly transfer to emissions-free port operations and heavy-goods logistics.
Angela Titzrath, CEO of HHLA, stated on 2 July: “We are happy to open the primary check box for hydrogen-powered port logistics nowadays. It permits us to check long term applied sciences, collect precious information and assessment the consequences. On this means, we’re shaping the sustainable long term of logistics and proceeding to spend money on cutting edge applied sciences.
“We’re sharing our findings with firms dealing with an identical demanding situations with a purpose to increase climate-friendly delivery answers in combination. Our function is apparent: We wish to decarbonise the logistics sector and succeed in our goal of climate-neutral operations during the crowd through 2040.”