- CEO
- Ivor Chow
- Full Time Employees
- 3,384
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Marine Shipping
- Address
- 1 Harbourfront Avenue Singapore CE Singapore 189720
- IPO Date
- Apr 18, 2012
- Business
- Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPH Trust) is a Singapore-based business trust that invests in, develops, operates, and manages deep-water container ports primarily in the Pearl River Delta of South China, including Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland; it also invests in complementary river ports and provides ancillary port services such as trucking, feedering, freight forwarding, supply chain management, warehousing, distribution, cargo depots, container storage and repair, and multimodal transport networks across road, rail, sea, and air. Its core asset portfolio comprises market-leading container terminals: Hongkong International Terminals (HIT), COSCO-HIT Terminals (COSCO-HIT), and Asia Container Terminals (ACT) in Hong Kong, which focus on transshipment cargoes leveraging Hong Kong's free port status; and Yantian International Container Terminals (YANTIAN) and Huizhou International Container Terminals (HICT) in Mainland China, which emphasize origin and destination cargoes. These facilities operate approximately 38 berths across 647 hectares of land and handled 21.3 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) in 2023.
HPH Trust, listed on the Singapore Exchange Mainboard since March 2011 under ticker NS8U (with OTC ticker HCTPF) and offering dual-currency trading since early 2012, is managed by Hutchison Port Holdings Management Pte. Limited and sponsored by Hutchison Port Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of CK Hutchison Holdings Limited. The trust targets shipping lines, cargo owners, and logistics providers serving import/export and transshipment markets in the world's busiest container trading hub.
In recent developments, HPH Trust was excluded from CK Hutchison's March 2025 in-principle agreement to sell an 80% effective stake in Hutchison Ports' global operations (excluding China assets) to the BlackRock-TiL Consortium—comprising BlackRock Inc., Global Infrastructure Partners, and Terminal Investment Limited—for an enterprise value of US$22.8 billion, preserving its independent focus on Pearl River Delta operations; as of mid-2025, discussions continue with potential involvement of a major Chinese strategic investor, though no changes affect HPH Trust directly. The trust maintained stable operations amid these parent-level shifts, reporting net income growth to US$63.16 million in the latest half-year period.