Today the Hapag-Lloyd Technology Center (HLTC) is being launched in Chennai, a port metropolis in japanese India. There, a staff of 180 IT professionals will develop revolutionary software program options for the maritime business. With their experience, these new colleagues will strengthen Hapag-Lloyd’s IT capabilities, in accordance with the corporate’s launch.

Housed within the World Trade Center Chennai, HLTC will likely be operated as a part of a three way partnership that Hapag-Lloyd established with the Indian expertise firm Solverminds in June this 12 months. As one of many world’s main suppliers of administration options for the maritime business, Solverminds has been working carefully with Hapag-Lloyd since 2017 within the areas of IT operations help and software program improvement. 

The purpose is to develop the brand new expertise heart within the subsequent few years.

The Hapag-Lloyd Technology Center will likely be led by a four-person administration staff comprising Balamurugan Palanivelu (CEO) and Venkatesh Balaji Ramamoorthy (CTO) from Solverminds in addition to Vaishali Shetty (CHRO) and Sameer Saxena (CFO) from Hapag-Lloyd.

Chennai will change into the third Hapag-Lloyd IT Technology Center alongside Gdansk (Poland), and Hamburg (Germany). The opening of the Technology Center in Chennai marks an essential step for Hapag-Lloyd and exhibits that the corporate sees nice potential in India, additionally with a have a look at tapping the big marketplace for extremely certified IT expertise it supplies. The nation has advanced right into a hub for cutting-edge expertise and boasts a booming IT business and an excellently educated workforce. With 1.4 billion residents, India is essentially the most populous nation on the planet. It numbers among the many fastest-growing economies within the G20 group and has one of many world’s largest software program industries.

With a fleet of 264 fashionable container ships and a complete transport capability of two.0 million TEU, Hapag-Lloyd is likely one of the world’s main liner delivery firms. In the Liner Shipping phase, the corporate has round 13,500 staff and 400 workplaces in 135 nations. Hapag-Lloyd has a container capability of two.9 million TEU – together with one of many largest and most fashionable fleets of reefer containers. A complete of 113 liner providers worldwide guarantee quick and dependable connections between greater than 600 ports internationally. In the Terminal & Infrastructure phase, Hapag-Lloyd has stakes in 20 terminals in Europe, Latin America, the United States, India, and North Africa.