Hapag-Lloyd Technology Centre (HLTC) is being launched in Chennai the place a staff of 180 IT professionals will develop revolutionary software program options for the maritime business.

“Housed in the World Trade Center Chennai, HLTC will be operated as part of a joint venture that Hapag-Lloyd established with the Indian technology company Solverminds in June this year,” says an official launch from Hapag.

As one of many main suppliers of administration options for the maritime business, Solverminds has been working intently with Hapag-Lloyd since 2017 within the areas of IT operations assist and software program improvement, the discharge added.

“In the Hapag-Lloyd Technology Centre, we shall be bundling our strengths and competences,” says Donya-Florence Amer, CIO/CHRO, Hapag-Lloyd. “HLTC will thereby make an important contribution to our technological transformation. We are continuing to expand our global IT presence and are able to provide industry-leading software solutions.

“In the medium term, we plan to increase the number of talents in our HLTC to between 300 and 400 specialists – thereby also grow the talent base and attractiveness of the whole company going forward.”

The HLTC will be led by a four-person management team including Balamurugan Palanivelu (CEO) and Venkatesh Balaji Ramamoorthy (CTO) from Solverminds and Vaishali Shetty (CHRO) and Sameer Saxena (CFO) from Hapag-Lloyd.

“Chennai has always been an important business hub, and, in recent years, it has become a major centre for software solutions,” says Palanivelu. “All these factors – port, business, software – offer us the perfect environment for our technology centre and for developing smart software solutions. We look forward to intensely interacting with Hapag-Lloyd’s global IT teams.”

Chennai will develop into the third Hapag-Lloyd IT Technology Centre alongside Gdansk (Poland) and Hamburg (Germany). Hapag-Lloyd employs greater than 3,000 folks in India throughout its gross sales workplace, and high quality service, world functionality and expertise centres.