French provider CMA CGM has cemented its port funding function withinside the Gibraltar straits after finishing its acquisition of 50% of HMM’s Total Terminal International Algeciras facility, following approval from the Spanish port authority.
CMA CGM has taken a 25.5% stake in TTIA, with funding fund companion DIF Capital Partners taking 24.5%, leaving HMM with a 50%+ one percentage stake.
The deal makes CMA CGM the second one predominant provider, after Maersk, to have a presence in ports on each aspects of the Gibraltar straits, and each additionally function terminals withinside the fast-developing Moroccan hub of Tangiers, round 10 miles from Algeciras.
It additionally paves the manner for the French provider and its Ocean Alliance transport companions to broaden a twin-hub approach withinside the region.
Christine Cabau Woehrel, CMA CGM Group government VP of commercial belongings and operations, said: “Our funding withinside the TTIA terminal in Algeciras is an indication of our self assurance withinside the region’s increase potential, and displays our preference to reinforce our provider competencies withinside the strait of Gibraltar.”
However, CMA CGM’s port portfolio is likewise turning into more and more more complex: of the forty eight terminals wherein it has an interest, possession is break up among CMA CGM Terminal Link (51% owned with the aid of using CMA CGM and 49% with the aid of using China Merchants); and CMA Terminals, that is absolutely managed with the aid of using the provider and beneathneath which the TTIA deal became concluded.
TTIA has a 850-metre berth, able to accommodating ULCVs, and an annual dealing with ability of 1.7m teu, which represents round 30% of the port’s general field ability. According to the eeSea liner database, throughput at Algeciras final yr became 5.1m teu, which became flat on 2019.
In contrast, final yr noticed Tangiers overtake Algeciras with a all through of 5.7m teu, in comparison with its 4.9m teu in 2019.
