Posted on August 5, 2024
Camillo Fontana will become Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Hanseatic Global Terminals (HGT) effective 1 August 2024. Hanseatic Global Terminals is based in Rotterdam and pools Hapag-Lloyd’s infrastructure holdings, which involves stakes in 20 strategically located container terminals operating in 11 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa.
“We are delighted that with Camillo we have found a very experienced financial expert to be the new CFO of Hanseatic Global Terminals. We have ambitious growth plans with Hanseatic Global Terminals, and we will be making major investments in quality, efficiency and sustainability to benefit our customers. It will therefore be crucial that we manage the related financial aspects in the best way possible,” said Dheeraj Bhatia, Chief Terminal and Infrastructure Officer (CTIO) of Hapag-Lloyd and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hanseatic Global Terminals.
Camillo Fontana has more than 15 years of finance experience in container shipping and land-logistics businesses. He has held several international management positions within the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) organisation, initially based in its Geneva headquarters as Finance Manager and, from 2014, as Regional CFO of Asia and Middle East, based in Singapore. In 2018 he was appointed CFO of Medlog S.A., the land-logistics division of MSC, a position he held until 2022. For the last two years, he has served as a board member for several MSC agencies as well as Head of the MSC Group CFO Office.
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About Hapag-Lloyd
With a fleet of 280 modern container ships and a total transport capacity of 2.1 million TEU, Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies. In the Liner Shipping segment, the Company has around 13,700 employees and 400 offices in 140 countries. Hapag-Lloyd has a container capacity of 3.1 million TEU – including one of the largest and most modern fleets of reefer containers. A total of 114 liner services worldwide ensure fast and reliable connections between more than 600 ports on all the continents. In the Terminal & Infrastructure segment, Hapag-Lloyd has equity stakes in 20 terminals in Europe, Latin America, the United States, India and North Africa. Around 2,900 employees are assigned to the Terminal & Infrastructure segment and provide complementary logistics services at selected locations in addition to the terminal activities.
