Modern Terminals

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Modern Terminals Limited
現代貨箱碼頭有限公司
Type Privately held company
Industry Container port operator
Founded1969;54 years ago (1969)
Headquarters,
Hong Kong
Area served
Hong Kong
Key people
Chairman: Stephen Ng [1]
Group Managing Director: Horace Lo [2]
Parent The Wharf (Holdings)
Website Modern Terminals Limited

Modern Terminals Limited (Modern Terminals or MTL), is the second largest container terminal operator in Hong Kong, just after Hongkong International Terminals Limited. [3] It operates terminal 1, 2, 5 and 9 (South) in Kwai Tsing Container Terminals in Hong Kong, and also sets up joint-venture in container terminals in Shenzhen, Guangdong and Taicang, Jiangsu in Mainland China. [4]

In the 1990s, MTL's largest shareholders were the Wharf (Holdings), China Merchants Holdings (International) and Swire Pacific.

Swire Pacific sold all the shares of MTL to the Wharf (Holdings) and China Merchants Holdings (International) in 2003. [5] It is now the subsidiary of Wharf (Holdings) and its shareholders China Merchants Holdings (International) and Jebsen Group. [6]

On March 4, 2021, CCN reported that Modern Terminals, the second-largest container terminal operator in Hong Kong, joined the TradeLens project, a blockchain-enabled technological solution developed by Maersk and IBM. [7]

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References

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  2. Modern Terminals Limited - Message from Group Managing Director
  3. "Modern Terminals in talks on port deal". Archived from the original on 2008-12-02. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
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