Hapag-Lloyd Acquires 25% Stake in APM Terminals Maasvlakte II

Hapag-Lloyd Acquires 25% Stake in APM Terminals Maasvlakte II

โš“ Ports & TerminalsAugust 24, 2026

Hapag-Lloyd Acquires 25% Stake in APM Terminals Maasvlakte II
Sources: DredgeWire / Hapag-Lloyd AG

Hapag-Lloyd has signed an agreement to acquire a 25% stake in APM Terminals Maasvlakte II, one of Europe’s most advanced automated container terminals. The investment strengthens the carrier’s terminal portfolio and supports the Gemini Cooperation with Maersk, while the terminal undergoes a major expansion to reach 5.4 million TEU annual capacity.

Hapag-Lloyd is making a strategic move to secure long-term terminal capacity in Europe by acquiring a quarter stake in one of Rotterdam’s most advanced facilities. The German shipping giant has signed an agreement with APM Terminals to purchase a 25% interest in APM Terminals Maasvlakte II B.V., a state-of-the-art automated container terminal that has been operational since 2015. The investment underscores the importance of Maasvlakte II as a critical hub for the Gemini Cooperation, the strategic alliance between Hapag-Lloyd and A.P. Moller-Maersk. APM Terminals will retain operational control of the facility, while both partners commit to supporting the terminal’s ongoing expansion and performance improvements. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval, and financial terms have not been disclosed.

๐Ÿ“Š Key Metrics & Data

Total Deep-Sea Berth2,000 metersAfter expansion completion
Terminal Operational Since2015Automated facility
Additional Rail Tracks4 tracksEnhanced intermodal connectivity
Hapag-Lloyd Fleet300 ships2.5 million TEU capacity
25%
Ownership Stake
5.4M TEU
Target Capacity
1,000m
New Berth Length

Major Expansion Underway to Double Capacity

APM Terminals Maasvlakte II is currently undergoing a substantial expansion program designed to strengthen its position as a premier European gateway. The project includes the addition of 1,000 meters of new deep-sea berth, which will bring the terminal’s total deep-sea berth length to 2,000 meters. This expansion will enable the facility to accommodate more ultra-large container vessels simultaneously, improving throughput and reducing vessel waiting times. The terminal is also adding significant yard capacity and deploying Automated Terminal Tractors along with other advanced automated equipment. Four additional rail tracks are being constructed to enhance intermodal connectivity and support the growing volume of cargo moving between Rotterdam and European hinterland destinations. Once the expansion is complete, the terminal is expected to handle up to 5.4 million TEU annually, nearly doubling its current capacity and significantly enhancing operational resilience. The project reflects the Port of Rotterdam Authority’s commitment to maintaining the port’s competitive edge in an increasingly demanding global shipping environment.

Strategic Fit for Gemini Network and Global Terminal Portfolio

For Hapag-Lloyd, the investment represents a strategic alignment with its broader terminal and infrastructure strategy. The acquisition will be managed through Hanseatic Global Terminals, the carrier’s dedicated terminals and infrastructure division. Dheeraj Bhatia, Chief Technology and Information Officer of Hapag-Lloyd and CEO of Hanseatic Global Terminals, emphasized that the planned investment will enhance network efficiency and reliability, particularly for the Gemini Cooperation. The terminal’s role as a key node in the Gemini network makes it essential for maintaining service quality and operational predictability. Keith Svendsen, CEO of APM Terminals, described Hapag-Lloyd’s investment as a strong vote of confidence in a facility that is critical to both the Gemini network and the Port of Rotterdam. He noted that the ongoing expansion is being delivered through close collaboration between the terminal team, the works council, and the Port of Rotterdam Authority. APM Terminals’ ambition is to make Maasvlakte II the best terminal in Northern Europe across all performance dimensions: safety, quality, delivery, and cost. The partnership is expected to support customer growth and cargo flows through Rotterdam for decades to come, reinforcing the terminal’s position as a cornerstone of European container logistics.

Key Insights

  • โ€ขHapag-Lloyd acquires 25% stake in APM Terminals Maasvlakte II to secure long-term automated terminal capacity in Rotterdam
  • โ€ขTerminal expansion will add 1,000 meters of berth and increase annual capacity to 5.4 million TEU
  • โ€ขInvestment strengthens the Gemini Cooperation between Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk at a critical European hub
  • โ€ขAPM Terminals retains operational control while both partners support terminal development and performance
Sources: DredgeWire / Hapag-Lloyd AG
Published: August 24, 2026
This article is based on publicly available information from the source indicated above.

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ํ•˜ํŒ๋กœ์ด๋“œ, APMํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ ๋งˆ์Šค๋ธ”๋ฝํ…Œ II ์ง€๋ถ„ 25% ์ธ์ˆ˜

โš“ ํ•ญ๋งŒ ๋ฐ ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„August 24, 2026

ํ•˜ํŒ๋กœ์ด๋“œ, APMํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ ๋งˆ์Šค๋ธ”๋ฝํ…Œ II ์ง€๋ถ„ 25% ์ธ์ˆ˜
์ถœ์ฒ˜: DredgeWire / ํ•˜ํŒ๋กœ์ด๋“œ AG

ํ•˜ํŒ๋กœ์ด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์ž๋™ํ™” ์ปจํ…Œ์ด๋„ˆ ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„๋กœ ๊ผฝํžˆ๋Š” APMํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ ๋งˆ์Šค๋ธ”๋ฝํ…Œ II์˜ ์ง€๋ถ„ 25%๋ฅผ ์ธ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„ ์ฒด๊ฒฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ํˆฌ์ž๋กœ ํ•˜ํŒ๋กœ์ด๋“œ๋Š” ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋จธ์Šคํฌ์™€์˜ ์ œ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์„ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ•ด๋‹น ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„์€ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ 540๋งŒ TEU๋กœ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์ฆ์„ค์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜ํŒ๋กœ์ด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋กœํ…Œ๋ฅด๋‹ด์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์•ž์„  ์‹œ์„ค ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ง€๋ถ„ 4๋ถ„์˜ 1์„ ์ธ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ๋‚ด ์žฅ๊ธฐ ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋Š” ์ „๋žต์  ํ–‰๋ณด์— ๋‚˜์„ฐ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋…์ผ ํ•ด์šด ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—…์€ APMํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„๊ณผ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„ ๋งบ๊ณ  2015๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ฐ€๋™ ์ค‘์ธ ์ตœ์ฒจ๋‹จ ์ž๋™ํ™” ์ปจํ…Œ์ด๋„ˆ ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ ‘APMํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ ๋งˆ์Šค๋ธ”๋ฝํ…Œ II B.V.’์˜ ์ง€๋ถ„ 25%๋ฅผ ๋งค์ž…ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ํˆฌ์ž๋Š” ํ•˜ํŒ๋กœ์ด๋“œ์™€ A.P. ๋ชฐ๋Ÿฌ-๋จธ์Šคํฌ์˜ ์ „๋žต์  ๋™๋งน์ธ ์ œ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์—์„œ ๋งˆ์Šค๋ธ”๋ฝํ…Œ II๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ–๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฑฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค. APMํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„์€ ์‹œ์„ค ์šด์˜๊ถŒ์„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์–‘์ธก์€ ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์ฆ์„ค๊ณผ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋Š” ๊ทœ์ œ ๋‹น๊ตญ์˜ ์Šน์ธ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„์•ผ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์กฐ๊ฑด์€ ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Š ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ง€ํ‘œ & ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ

์ด ์‹ฌํ•ด ์„ ์„2,000๋ฏธํ„ฐํ™•์žฅ ์™„๋ฃŒ ํ›„
ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ ์šด์˜ ๊ฐœ์‹œ2015๋…„์ž๋™ํ™” ์‹œ์„ค
์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ฒ ๋„ ์„ ๋กœ4๊ฐœ ์„ ๋กœ๋ณตํ•ฉ์šด์†ก ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ฑ ๊ฐ•ํ™”
ํ•˜ํŒ๋กœ์ด๋“œ ์„ ๋Œ€300์ฒ™250๋งŒ TEU ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰
25%
์ง€๋ถ„์œจ
5.4M TEU
๋ชฉํ‘œ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ
1,000m
์‹ ๊ทœ ์„ ์„ ๊ธธ์ด

์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ๋‘ ๋ฐฐ ํ™•๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์ฆ์„ค ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘

APMํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ ๋งˆ์Šค๋ธ”๋ฝํ…Œ II๋Š” ์œ ๋Ÿฝ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ ๊ด€๋ฌธํ•ญ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์ž…์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์ง€๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์ฆ์„ค ๊ณต์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์€ ์‹ฌํ•ด ์„ ์„ 1,000m๋ฅผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•ด ์ด ์„ ์„ ๊ธธ์ด๋ฅผ 2,000m๋กœ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์„ ์„์ด ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๋ฉด ์ดˆ๋Œ€ํ˜• ์ปจํ…Œ์ด๋„ˆ์„ ์„ ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ๋™์‹œ์— ์ ‘์•ˆ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋Ÿ‰์ด ๋Š˜๊ณ  ์„ ๋ฐ• ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋„ ์ค„์–ด๋“ค ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋œ๋‹ค. ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„์€ ์•ผ๋“œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„๋„ ๋Œ€ํญ ํ™•์ถฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์ž๋™ํ™” ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ ํŠธ๋ž™ํ„ฐ ๋“ฑ ์ฒจ๋‹จ ์ž๋™ํ™” ์žฅ๋น„๋ฅผ ๋„์ž…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋กœํ…Œ๋ฅด๋‹ด๊ณผ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ๋‚ด๋ฅ™์„ ์˜ค๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ™”๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์— ๋Œ€์‘ํ•ด ์ฒ ๋„ ์„ ๋กœ 4๊ฐœ๋„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ๊ฑด์„ค ์ค‘์ด๋‹ค. ์ฆ์„ค์ด ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋˜๋ฉด ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„์˜ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์€ ์ตœ๋Œ€ 540๋งŒ TEU์— ๋‹ฌํ•ด ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋‘ ๋ฐฐ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ , ์šด์˜ ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ๋„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋  ์ „๋ง์ด๋‹ค. ์ด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋Š” ์ ์  ๊นŒ๋‹ค๋กœ์›Œ์ง€๋Š” ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํ•ด์šด ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ํ•ญ๋งŒ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๋กœํ…Œ๋ฅด๋‹ดํ•ญ๋งŒ์ฒญ์˜ ์˜์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค.

์ œ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ๋ฐ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „๋žต์  ์ ํ•ฉ์„ฑ

ํ•˜ํŒ๋กœ์ด๋“œ ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ ์ด๋ฒˆ ํˆฌ์ž๋Š” ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ยท์ธํ”„๋ผ ์ „๋ฐ˜์˜ ์ „๋žต๊ณผ ๊ถค๋ฅผ ๊ฐ™์ดํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋ถ„ ์ธ์ˆ˜๋Š” ํ•˜ํŒ๋กœ์ด๋“œ์˜ ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ยท์ธํ”„๋ผ ์ „๋‹ด ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์ธ ํ•œ์žํ‹ฑ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„์Šค(Hanseatic Global Terminals)๊ฐ€ ๋งก์•„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•œ๋‹ค. ํ•˜ํŒ๋กœ์ด๋“œ์˜ ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ •๋ณด์ฑ…์ž„์ž(CTIO)์ด์ž ํ•œ์žํ‹ฑ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„์Šค CEO์ธ ๋””๋ผ์ง€ ๋ฐ”ํ‹ฐ์•„๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ํˆฌ์ž๋กœ ํŠนํžˆ ์ œ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์˜ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์‹ ๋ขฐ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์•„์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฑฐ์ ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ด ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„์˜ ์œ„์ƒ์€ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ํ’ˆ์งˆ๊ณผ ์šด์˜ ์˜ˆ์ธก ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ด๋‹ค. APMํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„์˜ ํ‚ค์Šค ์Šค๋ฒค์„ผ CEO๋Š” ํ•˜ํŒ๋กœ์ด๋“œ์˜ ์ด๋ฒˆ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ์ œ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์™€ ๋กœํ…Œ๋ฅด๋‹ดํ•ญ ๋ชจ๋‘์— ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์‹œ์„ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์‹ ๋ขฐ ํ‘œ์‹œ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ์ฆ์„ค์ด ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ ์šด์˜ํŒ€, ๋…ธ์‚ฌํ˜‘์˜ํšŒ, ๋กœํ…Œ๋ฅด๋‹ดํ•ญ๋งŒ์ฒญ ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ธด๋ฐ€ํ•œ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด๋ค„์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค. APMํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ์•ˆ์ „ยทํ’ˆ์งˆยท์ธ๋„ยท๋น„์šฉ ๋“ฑ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋งˆ์Šค๋ธ”๋ฝํ…Œ II๋ฅผ ๋ถ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์€ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋กœํ…Œ๋ฅด๋‹ด์„ ๊ฑฐ์น˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ํ™”๋ฌผ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์ปจํ…Œ์ด๋„ˆ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฑฐ์ ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„์˜ ์œ„์ƒ์„ ํ•œ์ธต ๊ตณํž ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค.

ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ

  • โ€ขํ•˜ํŒ๋กœ์ด๋“œ, ๋กœํ…Œ๋ฅด๋‹ด ๋‚ด ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์ž๋™ํ™” ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ํ™•๋ณด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด APMํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ ๋งˆ์Šค๋ธ”๋ฝํ…Œ II ์ง€๋ถ„ 25% ์ธ์ˆ˜
  • โ€ขํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ ์ฆ์„ค๋กœ ์„ ์„ 1,000m ์ถ”๊ฐ€, ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ 540๋งŒ TEU๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€
  • โ€ข์ด๋ฒˆ ํˆฌ์ž๋กœ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฑฐ์ ์—์„œ ํ•˜ํŒ๋กœ์ด๋“œ-๋จธ์Šคํฌ ๊ฐ„ ์ œ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ํ•œ์ธต ๊ฐ•ํ™”
  • โ€ขAPMํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„์€ ์šด์˜๊ถŒ ์œ ์ง€, ์–‘์‚ฌ๋Š” ํ„ฐ๋ฏธ๋„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๊ณผ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ ๊ฐœ์„  ๊ณต๋™ ์ง€์›
์ถœ์ฒ˜: DredgeWire / ํ•˜ํŒ๋กœ์ด๋“œ AG
๋ฐœํ–‰์ผ: 2026๋…„ 8์›” 24์ผ
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