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Hapag-Lloyd opens Technology Centre in ChennaiHapag-Lloyd opens Technology Centre in Chennai

Hapag-Lloyd has opened a Technology Centre (HLTC) in Chennai where a team of 180 IT professionals will develop software solutions for the maritime industry.

Michele Labrut, Americas Correspondent

November 23, 2023

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Housed in the World Trade Centre Chennai, HLTC will be operated as part of a joint venture between Hapag-Lloyd and the Indian technology company Solverminds in June this year.

Solverminds has been working closely with Hapag-Lloyd since 2017 in the areas of IT operations support and software development.

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

 “As a port city, Chennai has always been an important business hub and, in recent years, it has become a major centre for software solutions,” sad Balamurugan Palanivelu, from Solverminds. “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 become the third Hapag-Lloyd IT Technology Centre alongside Gdansk and Hamburg.

 

 

 

About the Author

Michele Labrut

Americas Correspondent

Michèle Labrut is a long-time Panama resident, a journalist and correspondent, and has continuously covered the maritime sector of Central & Latin America.

Michèle first came to Panama as a press attaché to the French Embassy and then returned to the isthmus as a foreign correspondent in the 1980s.

Author of Seatrade Maritime's annual Panama Maritime Review magazine and of several books, Michèle also wrote for Time magazine, The Miami Herald, NBC News and the Economist Intelligence Unit. She has also collaborated in making several documentaries for the BBC and European and U.S. television networks.

Michèle's profession necessitates a profound knowledge of the country, but her acumen is not from necessity alone, but a genuine passion for Panama.

In 2012 she was awarded the Order of Merit (Knight grade) by the French Government for her services to international journalism and in 2021 the upgrade to Chevalier grade.

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