Hercules SA Braila
BBVB:HLEB25.80
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+5.80
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ROHLEBACNOR0
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- Sector
- Transportation
- Industry
- Marine shipping
- Address
- Braila Romania
- IPO Date
- Dec 16, 1996
- Website
- hercules-braila.ro
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- Hercules SA Brăila is a Romania-based port operator and river freight logistics company specializing in cargo handling, storage, and inland waterway transportation services on the maritime Danube River. The company operates through integrated port infrastructure situated in the Port of Brăila (Bazin Docuri and Free Zone areas) and organizes its business across several core service segments: stevedoring and port cargo handling, encompassing the loading, discharging, direct and indirect transshipment, and trimming of freight across maritime vessels, river barges, railway wagons, and trucks; warehousing and storage services, operating high-capacity grain silos, covered warehouses, and open-air paved storage platforms for agricultural commodities, bulk materials, and general cargo; inland waterway freight transport, deploying a dedicated river fleet comprising pushers, tugs, barges, and floating cranes across the Danube River network; and auxiliary maritime and port support services, which include vessel mooring and unmooring, cargo lashing and unlashing, mechanical bagging, cargo sorting, weighing, and vessel technical assistance. The company handles a wide variety of cargo categories, including grains, oilseeds, chemical fertilizers, phosphates, cement, ores, metallurgical products, rolled steel, aluminum, and project cargo. Tracing its operational heritage to the historic Brăila port docks engineered in 1891 and officially incorporated in 1991, Hercules SA is headquartered in Brăila, Romania, operates under majority shareholder SC Bursagrirom SA, and trades on the Bucharest Stock Exchange AeRO market under the ticker symbol HLEB. In recent developments, Hercules SA led the consortium executing the comprehensive rehabilitation and modernization of port infrastructure at the Brăila Docks Basin (Bazin Docuri), upgrading berths 31 through 38, mooring facilities, access roads, and utility connections supported by European Union Large Infrastructure Operational Programme (POIM) funding. In addition, the company has expanded and upgraded its operational asset base through the acquisition of heavy-duty quay portal cranes of up to 40 tonnes, mobile telescopic material handlers, and upgraded bulk handling mechanisms to capitalize on increased regional grain transit and multimodal freight flows along the Lower Danube logistics corridor.