Hamburger Hafen und Logistik Aktiengesellschaft

Shareholders of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik Aktiengesellschaft

The shareholder record stored in Zavia’s data for this profile lists a single position: an institutional holder (“Fidelity Concord Street TRT-Fidelity SAI Intl Small Cap Index Fd.”) shown at 100% with 6,200 ordinary shares, verified 4 September 2026. This does not reflect HHLA’s actual share register; it is one disclosed institutional position captured by a third-party financial data feed and is treated as unreliable for this profile. HHLA’s real ownership structure, described below, is drawn from HHLA’s own investor-relations disclosures and reputable financial press.

HHLA has two share classes. Class S shares (Real Estate subgroup) have always been held in full (100%) by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg through its holding company, HGV Hamburger Gesellschaft für Vermögens- und Beteiligungsmanagement mbH (“HGV”), and are not publicly traded. Class A shares (Port Logistics subgroup) were, until 2024, held roughly two-thirds by the City of Hamburg (via HGV), with the remainder in free float on the Frankfurt and Hamburg stock exchanges.

In November 2024, following European Commission merger clearance and approval by the Hamburg city parliament, HGV contributed its Class A shareholding into a newly formed joint holding company, Port of Hamburg Beteiligungsgesellschaft SE (“PoH”), in exchange for a 50.1% stake in PoH; Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) holds the remaining 49.9% of PoH. PoH subsequently made a public tender offer for HHLA’s remaining free-float Class A shares. By January 2026, PoH had surpassed the 95% ownership threshold under German stock-corporation law (AktG) required to force out remaining minority holders. On 11 June 2026, HHLA’s general meeting approved, with 99.54% of votes cast, the transfer of all remaining Class A minority shares to PoH against cash compensation of €21.16 per share. As of this review (25 September 2026), this squeeze-out had been approved by shareholders but its legal effect, and the full elimination of the free float, was still pending registration in the Hamburg commercial register.

Ultimate beneficial ownership. HHLA has no natural-person ultimate beneficial owner. Control is exercised jointly by two institutional/public shareholders through PoH: the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (a German federal state and public-law municipal corporation, acting through HGV), holding 50.1% of PoH, and Mediterranean Shipping Company, a privately held shipping and logistics group, holding 49.9% of PoH. MSC’s own ultimate ownership has been widely reported in the press as resting with the Aponte family; this has not been independently verified against an official register for the purposes of this profile and is not stated as a confirmed fact.

Data availability. Major shareholders only. HHLA’s shareholder and major-holding information derives from WpHG major-shareholding notifications filed with BaFin and from HHLA’s own ad hoc and general-meeting disclosures, rather than from a complete real-time share register. The information above is current to the sources cited and may change further as the squeeze-out is finalised.

Sources.

• MSC Group completes acquisition of minority stake in HHLA (November 2024) — https://www.msc.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024/msc-group-completes-acquisition-of-minority-stake-in-hhla
• HHLA — Shareholder structure (investor relations) — https://hhla.de/en/investors/share/shareholder-structure
• HHLA — Ad hoc: Port of Hamburg Beteiligungsgesellschaft SE submits request to squeeze out minority shareholders of HHLA — https://hhla.de/en/media/news/detail-view/ad-hoc-port-of-hamburg-beteiligungsgesellschaft-se-submits-request-to-squeeze-out-minority-shareholders-of-hhla
• Port Strategy — HHLA shareholders approve squeeze-out (June 2026) — https://www.portstrategy.com/port-and-terminal-news/hhla-shareholders-approve-squeeze-out/1509559.article
• Lloyd’s List — MSC completes purchase of 49.9% stake in Hamburg Port’s HHLA — https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1151653/MSC-completes-purchase-of-499-stake-in-Hamburg-Ports-HHLA
• Handelsregister (Commercial Register), Hamburg, HRB 1902 — https://www.handelsregister.de

Directors and officers of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik Aktiengesellschaft

Zavia’s stored officer register for this profile contains 51 records spanning appointments and resignations from 2001 to 2023 (35 marked “resigned”, 16 marked “active”). Many of these entries duplicate the same individual under multiple generic job titles (for example “Officer” or “Board Member”) with inconsistent status flags, and none reflect Executive Board or Supervisory Board changes made after 2023. This stored register is therefore treated as a historical/partial dataset and has not been used, on its own, to state HHLA’s current board composition. The current composition below is taken directly from HHLA’s own governance pages (September 2026).

Executive Board (Vorstand) — four members:

• Jeroen Eijsink — Chief Executive Officer (appointed 1 October 2025, succeeding Angela Titzrath after nine years in the role); responsible for corporate development, communications, sustainability, container sales, and the Intermodal and Logistics segments.
• Jens Hansen — Chief Operating Officer; responsible for operations, technology and information systems.
• Torben Seebold — Chief Human Resources Officer; responsible for labour relations, HR, procurement, workplace safety, legal affairs and compliance.
• Annette Geiß — Chief Financial Officer; responsible for finance, controlling, investor relations, internal audit and the Real Estate segment. HHLA has disclosed that her current contract term runs to 31 December 2026.

Supervisory Board (Aufsichtsrat) — twelve members: six elected by the general meeting under the Stock Corporation Act (AktG) and six elected by employees under the Co-Determination Act (MitbestG). Shareholder representatives: Marcus Vitt (Chairman, since October 2025, succeeding Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Grube), Kristin Berger (Chief Financial Officer, MSC Germany S.A. & Co. KG), Dr Andreas Dressel (President of Hamburg’s Ministry of Finance and Districts, and member of the Bundesrat), Hugues Favard (Chief Investment Officer, Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.), Katharina Kriston (Head of Office/Senate Director, Hamburg Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Innovation) and Søren Toft (Chief Executive Officer, Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.). Employee representatives: André Kretschmar (Deputy Chairman, ver.di Hamburg district), Alexander Grant, Holger Heinzel and Franziska Reisener (all HHLA employees), Stefan Koop (speaker of HHLA’s Group works council) and Maren Ulbich (ver.di Federal Department B). Three seats are held by MSC executives and two by City of Hamburg government officials, directly reflecting the joint shareholder structure described in the shareholders section of this profile.

Recent officer changes.

• 1 October 2025 — Jeroen Eijsink succeeded Angela Titzrath as Chief Executive Officer.
• October 2025 — Marcus Vitt succeeded Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Grube as Chairman of the Supervisory Board.
• From November 2024 — MSC-affiliated and additional City of Hamburg-affiliated representatives joined the Supervisory Board following formation of Port of Hamburg Beteiligungsgesellschaft SE.

Nationality and residence. Nationality is not disclosed in any source reviewed for this profile and is reported as “Not disclosed” for every officer, consistent with German AG governance disclosure practice, which does not routinely publish directors’ nationality. Country of residence and correspondence addresses were not part of the sources reviewed and are not stated.

Data availability. Current board information is Full and sourced directly from HHLA’s official governance pages. The historical officer register held in Zavia’s data is Partial/Historical and should not be read as a current officer list.

Sources.

• HHLA — Supervisory Board members — https://hhla.de/en/company/management/supervisory-board/members
• HHLA — Executive Board — https://hhla.de/en/company/management/executive-board
• HHLA — Jeroen Eijsink takes over as CEO of HHLA — https://hhla.de/en/media/news/detail-view/jeroen-eijsink-takes-over-as-ceo-of-hhla
• EQS News — Annette Geiß to complete her term as CFO at the end of the year as per contract — https://www.eqs-news.com/news/corporate/annette-geis-to-complete-her-term-as-cfo-at-the-end-of-the-year-as-per-contract/0f55b314-f115-48ee-ae45-1b215fc751d1_en

Group structure of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik Aktiengesellschaft

HHLA is not an independent company: it is majority-controlled through a joint holding structure established in November 2024. HGV Hamburger Gesellschaft für Vermögens- und Beteiligungsmanagement mbH (“HGV”), wholly owned by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) jointly own Port of Hamburg Beteiligungsgesellschaft SE (“PoH”) — 50.1% HGV / 49.9% MSC — and PoH is HHLA’s immediate controlling shareholder for the Class A (Port Logistics) shares. HHLA’s Class S (Real Estate) shares remain wholly owned by the City of Hamburg via HGV, outside this joint arrangement. HHLA has no single ultimate parent; it is jointly controlled at group level by the City of Hamburg and MSC.

Below PoH/HHLA, HHLA operates a substantial network of direct and indirect subsidiaries verified from company-register data, spanning container-terminal operations in Hamburg, European rail intermodal transport, port consulting, digital ventures and international project-logistics units. The main jurisdictions represented are Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Austria, Croatia, Serbia, the Netherlands, Italy, Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Estonia, the United States and Australia. Group information is current to Zavia’s internal registry-linked data (2026) and to HHLA’s 2025 Annual Report group-structure disclosure.

Verified corporate relationships (selection)

Recent structural changes.

• November 2024 — Formation of Port of Hamburg Beteiligungsgesellschaft SE as new joint intermediate holding company between the City of Hamburg (via HGV) and MSC, following EU merger-control clearance.
• January-June 2026 — PoH’s holding of HHLA’s Class A shares passed the 95% squeeze-out threshold; HHLA’s general meeting approved the squeeze-out of remaining minority Class A shareholders on 11 June 2026, pending registration.

Data quality note. The raw group-linkage data held for this profile also includes approximately 65 additional entities nested under “Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg” (the City of Hamburg) and “Bundesland Hamburg” — including bodies such as Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg Port Authority, Hamburger Hochbahn AG, SAGA Siedlungs-AG, the Thalia Theater and Hamburg’s state opera and university. These are separate public-sector or municipally owned entities that share the City of Hamburg as an ultimate public shareholder but have no direct corporate or operational relationship to HHLA. They have been excluded from the verified relationships above and should not be read as part of HHLA’s corporate group.

Data availability. Partial. The ownership chain to the City of Hamburg and MSC, and HHLA’s principal operating subsidiaries, are verified against registration numbers and official/press sources; individual intra-group ownership percentages below HHLA level are not disclosed in the sources reviewed.

Sources.

• HHLA Annual Report 2025 — Group structure — https://report.hhla.de/annual-report-2025/management-report/basic-group-information/group-structure.html
• MSC Group completes acquisition of minority stake in HHLA — https://www.msc.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024/msc-group-completes-acquisition-of-minority-stake-in-hhla
• HHLA — Ad hoc: PoH submits request to squeeze out minority shareholders of HHLA — https://hhla.de/en/media/news/detail-view/ad-hoc-port-of-hamburg-beteiligungsgesellschaft-se-submits-request-to-squeeze-out-minority-shareholders-of-hhla
• Handelsregister (Commercial Register), Hamburg — https://www.handelsregister.de