Modern Terminals

{{Short description|Container terminal operator in Hong Kong}}

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| name = Modern Terminals Limited
現代貨箱碼頭有限公司

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| type = Privately held company

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| foundation = {{Start date and age|1969}}

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| location_city = Kwai Chung

| location_country = Hong Kong

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| key_people = Chairman: Stephen Ng{{Cite web |url=http://www.wharfholdings.com/eng/about_director.html#stephen |title=The Wharf Holdings - Mr. Stephen Ng |access-date=2008-04-03 |archive-date=2009-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090310000315/http://www.wharfholdings.com/eng/about_director.html#stephen |url-status=dead }}
Group Managing Director: Horace Lo[http://www.modernterminals.com/hkbu/index.php/About/detail/ID/75/?l=english Modern Terminals Limited - Message from Group Managing Director]

| area_served = Hong Kong

| industry = Container port operator

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| parent = The Wharf (Holdings)

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| homepage =[http://www.modernterminals.com/ Modern Terminals Limited]

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Modern Terminals Limited (Modern Terminals or MTL), is the second largest container terminal operator in Hong Kong, just after Hongkong International Terminals Limited.{{Cite web |url=http://paper.sznews.com/szdaily/20070326/ca2619260.htm |title=Modern Terminals in talks on port deal |access-date=2008-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202170300/http://paper.sznews.com/szdaily/20070326/ca2619260.htm |archive-date=2008-12-02 |url-status=dead }} It operates terminal 1, 2, 5 and 9 (South) in Kwai Tsing Container Terminals in Hong Kong, and also sets up joint-venture in container terminals in Shenzhen, Guangdong and Taicang, Jiangsu in Mainland China.{{Cite web |url=http://www.modernterminals.com/eng/operations/equipment.html |title=Modern Terminals Limited - Equipment List |access-date=2008-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080421115712/http://www.modernterminals.com/eng/operations/equipment.html |archive-date=2008-04-21 |url-status=dead }}

In the 1990s, MTL's largest shareholders were the Wharf (Holdings), China Merchants Holdings (International) and Swire Pacific.

Swire Pacific sold all the shares of MTL to the Wharf (Holdings) and China Merchants Holdings (International) in 2003.[http://202.66.146.82/listco/hk/swire/announcement/a050801.pdf SWIRE PACIFIC LIMITED - Sale of shares in Modern Terminals Limited] It is now the subsidiary of Wharf (Holdings) and its shareholders China Merchants Holdings (International) and Jebsen Group.{{Cite web |url=http://www.modernterminals.com/eng/theCompany/history.html |title=Modern Terminals Limited - History |access-date=2008-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050105230912/http://www.modernterminals.com/eng/theCompany/history.html |archive-date=2005-01-05 |url-status=dead }}

On March 4, 2021, CCN reported that Modern Terminals, the second-largest container terminal operator in Hong Kong, joined the TradeLens project, a blockchain-enabled technological solution developed by Maersk and IBM.https://www.ccn.com/hong-kongs-2nd-largest-terminal-operator-adopts-blockchain-to-document-logistics-data/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}