German terminal operator\u00a0Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) is taking a majority stake of 50.01 percent in the multi-function terminal Piattaforma Logistica Trieste (PLT) in the Italian seaport of Trieste.<\/p>\n
The investment will be allocated contractually and organisationally to HHLA International GmbH. <\/p>\n
With this investment, HHLA aims to position itself in a growing market on the Adriatic. This will be HHLA\u2019s third participation in a port outside Hamburg after Odessa (Ukraine) and Tallinn (Estonia). <\/p>\n
\u201cAs the northernmost port in the Mediterranean, Trieste is the southern gateway to Central and Eastern Europe. The investment is a strategic expansion to our existing port and intermodal network,” <\/em>Angela Titzrath<\/strong>, Chairwoman of HHLA\u2019s Executive Board, said.<\/p>\n “At the same time, we will continue to enhance our terminals in Hamburg by investing in facilities and technology. We are a Hamburg company, at home in Europe and operating globally.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHHLA’s participation strengthens the growth prospects of PLT and of the entire Port of Trieste. Our development strategy in the direction of Central and Eastern Europe fits in with HHLA’s orientation,<\/em>\u201d Francesco Parisi<\/strong>, Chairman of PLT’s Executive Board, added. <\/p>\n The terminal facilities are within the Free Port of Trieste and take up a an area of 28 hectares. In the northern part of the facilities, mainly general cargo transports and logistic services are being handled. <\/p>\n The new heart of the terminal is emerging in the southern part: the newly developed area is scheduled to start operations in the first quarter of 2021 and is designed to handle container and RoRo traffic.<\/p>\n The capacity of the PLT terminal will be 300,000 TEU, 90,000 RoRo units and 700,000 tonnes of general cargo. <\/p>\n The terminal capacity can be further expanded to additional adjacent areas. <\/p>\n The transaction is subject to various conditions precedent and is expected to close in January 2021. <\/p>\n The post HHLA takes majority stake in Piattaforma Logistica Trieste<\/a> appeared first on Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The newly developed PLT area will start operations in the first quarter of 2021, Image by HHLA German terminal operator\u00a0Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) is taking a majority stake of 50.01 percent in the multi-function terminal Piattaforma Logistica Trieste (PLT) in the Italian seaport of Trieste. The investment will be allocated contractually and organisationally …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1060,11750,1253,11749,1254,2465,11751],"class_list":["post-18455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-hhla","tag-logistica","tag-majority","tag-piattaforma","tag-stake","tag-takes","tag-trieste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/18456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/file\/2020\/09\/1601382785_793_HHLA-takes-majority-stake-in-Piattaforma-Logistica-Trieste.png\")
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