From October: Marcus Vitt takes over as Chairman of the HHLA Supervisory Board

Senator Andreas Dressel and Katharina Kriston are also expected to take on supervisory board mandates. Senator Melanie Leonhard, speaking on behalf of HHLA's majority owner, Port of Hamburg Beteiligungsgesellschaft, stated: "We are pleased that Marcus Vitt, a financial expert, is taking over as chairman."

In addition to Grube, the current representatives of the City of Hamburg, Andreas Rieckhof (State Councillor of the Economic Affairs Department) and Sibylle Roggencamp (Head of the Office for Investment Management in the Department of Finance and Districts), will also leave the HHLA Supervisory Board effective September 30, 2025.

Twelve-member Supervisory Board, equally composed

In consultation with the Nomination Committee of the HHLA Supervisory Board, Vitt, Chairman of the Hamburg Stock Exchange Council, Senator Andreas Dressel (President of the Department of Finance and Districts) and Katharina Kriston (Head of the Central Office of the Department of Economic Affairs, Labor and Innovation) will join the Supervisory Board effective October 1, 2025. The court appointment of the three new members will be applied for promptly.

The HHLA Supervisory Board consists of twelve members and is staffed on an equal basis. The six employee representatives are appointed in accordance with the provisions of the German Co-Determination Act (Mitbestimmungsgesetz). The City of Hamburg and MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company each have the right to propose three Supervisory Board members, with the City proposing the chairperson.