Solverminds

Nov 22, 2023

Joint venture with software provider Solverminds becomes third tech hub for the ocean carrier November 22, 2023 Located in Chennai, a port city in eastern India, the Hapag-Lloyd Technology Center (HLTC) will host a team of 180 IT professionals charged with developing innovative software solutions for the maritime industry. It becomes the third Hapag-Lloyd IT Technology Center alongside Gdansk (Poland) and Hamburg (Germany). First announced in June, the center is slated to grow quickly in the next few years . “In the medium term, we plan to increase the number of talents in our HLTC to between 300 and 400 specialists – thereby also grow the talent base and attractiveness of the whole company going forward,” Donya-Florence Amer, CIO/CHRO at Hamburg, Germany-based Hapag-Lloyd, said in a release. The HLTC will be led by a four-person management team comprising Balamurugan Palanivelu (CEO) and Venkatesh Balaji Ramamoorthy (CTO) from Solverminds as well as Vaishali Shetty (CHRO) and Sameer Saxena (CFO) from Hapag-Lloyd. “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,” Palanivelu said in a release. “All these factors – port, business, software – offer us the perfect environment for our technology center and for developing smart software solutions. We look forward to intensely interacting with Hapag-Lloyd’s global IT teams.”