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Hanseatic Global Terminals (HGT) is totally taking on the Florida International Terminal, through which the corporate already had a stake, HGT introduced on Friday. HGT, based mostly in Rotterdam, is the subsidiary through which Germany’s largest transport firm Hapag-Lloyd bundles its worldwide holdings in terminals.

HGT at the moment holds 21 investments in container port terminals; by 2030, Hapag-Lloyd and HGT are aiming for no less than 30 investments in complete. Hapag-Lloyd can be increasing its strategic cooperation with port terminals by means of HGT.

Last 12 months, HGT took over a majority stake in a port terminal in Le Havre, France, and on the finish of December additionally agreed to construct a brand new container terminal in Brazil by 2028. HGT holds 50 % of the Aracruz terminal within the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. In Germany, HGT holds a 25.1 % stake within the HHLA Altenwerder container terminal in Hamburg and 30 % within the JadeWeserPort in Wilhelmshaven.

Hapag-Lloyd has been concerned within the Florida International Terminal (FIT) within the port of Port Everglades in South Florida since 2023 by means of the takeover of the Chilean terminal operator SAAM. “FIT is strategically located and serves one of the largest consumer markets in the world,” HGT mentioned. “The terminal specializes in handling containers and general cargo and offers direct connections to major highways and rail networks, ensuring efficient land and intermodal transport as well as access to the region’s hinterland.”

For the main liner transport firms, establishing and increasing their very own networks of port terminals is of nice strategic significance. The transport chain will be higher managed and managed by incorporating your personal techniques.

Hapag-Lloyd, based mostly in Hamburg, launched the Alliance Gemini Cooperation along with the Danish transport firm Maersk in February 2025. According to each transport firms, Gemini now has the very best punctuality in comparison with intercontinental liner companies. Hapag-Lloyd is the world’s fifth largest container liner transport firm, Maersk the second largest.

In addition to coordinating greater than 300 ships used collectively, the core of the Gemini alliance is, above all, the inclusion of as many port terminals as doable through which one of many two transport firms is concerned. On the North Sea, along with HGT’s presence at JadeWeserPort, this additionally applies, amongst different issues, to the terminals on the Maasvlakte in Rotterdam and in Bremerhaven, that are wholly or partially owned by Maersk.

Port terminals – that are a part of the essential infrastructure – have gotten more and more strategically vital for transport firms due to growing political tensions between the main buying and selling areas of Europe, China and the USA. In the longer term, no matter value, it may turn into tougher for transport firms to even acquire entry to possession of port services.

Olaf Preuß is a enterprise reporter for WELT and WELT AM SONNTAG for Hamburg and northern Germany. He has been reporting on the maritime economic system, transport, shipyards and ports for greater than three a long time.