News / Hankook secures export space for its tyres with Hapag-Lloyd contract

Contract signing Hankook Tire & Hapag Dec 2021

The contract signing ceremony with on the left Hapag-Lloyd’s Asia MD Hans Schaefer and Hankook Tire & Technology CEO Lee Soo-il.

By Martina Li in Taiwan

14/12/2021

South Korea’s largest tyre-maker, Hankook, has signed a three-year shipping contract with German mainline operator Hapag-Lloyd to ensure sufficient shipping capacity, even as other shippers seem ambivalent about being locked into current freight rates.

Neither Hankook nor Hapag-Lloyd disclosed the shipping routes covered, citing business confidentiality.

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