Hapag-Lloyd opens technology centre in Chennai

Housed in the World Trade Center Chennai, Hapag-Lloyd Technology Centre will be operated as part of a joint venture that Hapag-Lloyd established with the Indian technology company Solverminds in June this year. A team of 180 IT professionals will develop innovative software solutions for the maritime industry.

HLTC will 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: Donya-Florence Amer, Hapag-Lloyd

Chennai has always been an important business hub, and, in recent years, it has become a major centre for software solutions. 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: Balamurugan Palanivelu, CEO, HLTC

Sameer Saxena, CFO, HLTC is part of the four-person management team including Palanivelu and Venkatesh Balaji Ramamoorthy (CTO) and Vaishali Shetty (CHRO).

Chennai will become the third Hapag-Lloyd IT Technology Centre alongside Gdansk (Poland) and Hamburg (Germany). Hapag-Lloyd employs more than 3,000 people in India across its sales office, and quality service, global capability and technology centres.

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