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Hutchison Port Holdings Limited
Hutchison Ports
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryTransport, Logistics
FounderJohn Duflon Hutchison
Headquarters
Hong Kong
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Eric Ip (Group Managing Director)
Sin Ling Tsim (CFO)
ProductsPort operations
ServicesPort operations
Owner
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese和記港口集團有限公司
Simplified Chinese和记港口集团有限公司
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHéjì gǎngkǒu jítuán yǒuxiàn gōngsī
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingWo4gei3 gong2hau2 zaap6tyun4 jau5haan6 gung1si1
Websitewww.hph.com Edit this at Wikidata

Hutchison Port Holdings Limited (HPH; Chinese: 和記港口集團有限公司), trading as Hutchison Ports (Chinese: 和記港口), is a private holding company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. The port operator group is a subsidiary of CK Hutchison Holdings (formerly Hutchison Whampoa). Some operation of the company were listed as Hutchison Port Holdings Trust in Singapore Exchange.

In 2016, the network comprised 48 port operations throughout Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Australasia.[1]

History

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In 2005, HPH was the largest port operator in the world, with a 33.2 million TEU throughput, and 8.3% world market share.[2]

In April 2006, Hutchison Whampoa sold a 20% share of Hutchison Port Holdings Limited to PSA International for $US4.4 billion, retaining ownership of the remaining 80%.[3][4]

In 2011, some of the assets was spin-off as a listed company as Hutchison Port Holdings Trust [zh];[5] the listed company was incorporated as a business trust under Singapore's Business Trusts Act.

In September 2016, HPH rebranded its network as Hutchison Ports.[6]

In December 2016, the Chornomorsk commercial seaport in western Ukraine, signed a cooperation agreement with Hutchison Ports. Among the agreed upon points are the company's entry into the port as a terminal operator as of 2017. Hutchison will provide expert consultative services to reform and improve Ukraine's port industry.[7][8]

In January 2025, the government of Panama commenced an audit of a local HPH subsidiary and a review of a 2021 concession contract for port operations on the Panama Canal that had been criticized for lacking transparency and generating limited benefits for Panama's economy.[9][10] In February 2025, a lawsuit was filed in Panama's Supreme Court of Justice seeking to cancel HPH's port operations contract at the Panama Canal.[11]

In March 2025, it is reported that CK Hutchinson Holding would sell HPH and Hutchinson Port Group Holdings.[12] There are reports stating that the key buyer is the Aponte Italian shipping family, and “the crucial figure” is Diego Aponte, group president of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), and chairman of the Terminal Investment Limited (TiL). TiL and BlackRock are consortium partners in the port deal.[13][14] According to the New York Times, the Li family felt it was "under political pressure to exit the ports business"; discussions with BlackRock about the Panama Canal had begun only a few weeks prior, coinciding with the beginning of the Trump administration.[15] On 28 March 2025, according to unnamed sources cited by Sing Tao Daily and the South China Morning Post, the deal will not be signed at the expected date after China's market regulator said it will carry out an antitrust review on the deal, but the source added that does not mean the deal has been called off, and April 2 is not a definitive deadline.[16] Chinese state media outlet China Central Television (CCTV) said the deal was "tantamount to handing a knife to an opponent."[17]

Associate company

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Hutchison Port Holdings Trust

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Hutchison Port Holdings Trust is a listed trust in Singapore Exchange. Hutchison Whampoa only owned 25% stake, but had the rights to influence the trust by controlling the key stake of changing the trustee they nominated before the initial public offering.[18]

In December 2016 The Trust's subsidiaries Yantian International Container Terminals (Phase III) Limited [zh] and Shenzhen Pingyan Multimodal Company Limited, jointly purchased 80% shares of Huizhou International Container Terminals (HICT) from Hutchison Port Holdings for US$86.26 million.[19][20]

In January, 2017 HPH Trust signed a strategic agreement to manage the operations at five terminals, including 16 berths in Kwai Tsing in Hong Kong.[21]

Reuters reported on March 4, 2025 that an investment group backed by BlackRock agreed to spend $22.8 billion to acquire a majority stake in Hong Kong's CK Hutchison Holdings Co., Ltd., which operates ports on both sides of the Panama Canal, giving the United States firm control of major terminals amid pressure from the White House to seize major terminals from China.[22][23] The sale does not include any interest in Hutchison Ports Holdings Trust, which operates ports in Hong Kong and China (mainly Shenzhen and other Guangdong ports).[23]

Port assets

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City Country Port (Terminal) Ownership
Ajman  United Arab Emirates Port of Ajman (Ajman International Terminals)
Alexandria  Egypt Alexandria Port (Alexandria International Container Terminal) 50%
Amsterdam  Netherlands Port of Amsterdam (Amsterdam Container Terminal) 100%[24]
Antwerp  Belgium Port of Antwerp (TMA Antwerp) 50%[24]
Balboa  Panama Port of Balboa 80%[25]
Barcelona  Spain Port of Barcelona (Barcelona Europe South Terminal) 100%[24]
Bà Rịa  Vietnam Saigon International Terminals Vietnam
Basra  Iraq Port of Basra
Brisbane  Australia Port of Brisbane (Berths 11 & 12) 100%
Busan  South Korea Port of Busan (Hutchison Busan Container Terminal)
Busan  South Korea Port of Busan (Hutchison Gamman Container Terminal)
Cristobal  Panama Port of Cristobal
Duisburg  Germany Port of Duisburg (Duisburger Container Terminal) 100%[26]
Dekhela  Egypt EI Dekheila Port 50%
Felixstowe  United Kingdom Port of Felixstowe 100%[24]
Foshan  China Port of Nanhai (Nanhai International Container Terminals)
Freeport  Bahamas Freeport Container Port 51%
Gdynia  Poland Port of Gdynia (Gdynia Container Terminal)
Greater London  United Kingdom London Thamesport 80%[24]
Gwangyang  South Korea Port of Gwangyang (Hutchison Kwangyang Container Terminal)
Gwangyang  South Korea Port of Gwangyang (Port Phase II) 89%
Harwich  United Kingdom Harwich International Port 100%[24]
Huizhou  China Port of Huizhou (HICT Terminal)
Hong Kong (Kwai Tsing District)  Hong Kong Port of Hong Kong (Kwai Tsing Container Terminals (CT4, CT6, CT7, CT9N)) 66.5%
Hong Kong (Kwai Tsing District)  Hong Kong Port of Hong Kong (Kwai Tsing Container Terminals (CT8)) 2nd largest (33.3%) after COSCO Shipping Ports
Hong Kong (Tuen Mun District)  Hong Kong Port of Hong Kong (River Trade Terminal) 50%
Jakarta  Indonesia Port of Tanjung Priok (Jakarta International Container Terminal) 51%
Jakarta  Indonesia Port of Tanjung Priok (Terminal Petikemas Koja
Jazan  Saudi Arabia Port of Jazan 100%[27]
Jiangmen  China Jiangmen Port (Jiangmen Terminal)
Karachi  Pakistan Port of Karachi (Karachi International Container Terminal)
Huizhou  China Port of Huizhou
Karachi  Pakistan Port of Karachi (South Asia Pakistan Terminal)
Laem Chabang  Thailand Laem Chabang Port
Lazaro Cardenas  Mexico Port of Lázaro Cárdenas (Lázaro Cardenas Terminal)
Manzanillo  Mexico Port of Manzanillo (Terminal Internacional de Manzanillo)
Moerdijk  Netherlands Port of Moerdijk (Moerdijk Container Terminals)
Ningbo  China Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan (Ningbo Beilun International Container Terminals)
Port Klang  Malaysia Port Klang (Westport) 30%[28]
Ras Al Khaimah  United Arab Emirates Ras Al Khaimah Port (International Container Terminal)
Rotterdam  Netherlands Port of Rotterdam (ECT Euromax) 45%[24]
Rotterdam  Netherlands Port of Rotterdam (ECT Delta) 89.37%[24]
Rotterdam  Netherlands Port of Rotterdam (ECT Delta 2) 60.78%[24]
Shanghai  China Port of Shanghai (Shanghai Mingdong Container Terminals)
Shanghai  China Port of Shanghai (Shanghai Pudong International Container Terminals)
Shenzhen  China Port of Yantian (Yantian International Container Terminals)
Sohar  Oman Sohar Port (Sohar Port Container Terminal)
Stockholm  Sweden Port of Stockholm (Hutchison Ports Stockholm) 100%[24]
Sydney  Australia Port Botany (Terminal 3) 100%
Taranto  Italy Port of Taranto (Taranto Container Terminal) 50%[29]
Venlo  Netherlands Port of Venlo
Veracruz  Mexico Port of Veracruz (ICAVE)
Yangon  Myanmar Thilawa Port (Myanmar International Terminal)
Xiamen  China Port of Xiamen (Xiamen International Container Terminals)

Notes

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References

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