{"id":13757,"date":"2026-02-16T20:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=13757"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:18:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:18:34","slug":"workers-strike-as-hapag-lloyd-acquires-zim","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/news\/workers-strike-as-hapag-lloyd-acquires-zim\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers Strike as Hapag-Lloyd Acquires ZIM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Hapag-Lloyd have announced that the company will buy Israeli ZIM Integrated Shipping Services for $4.2 billion prompting ZIM employees to take immediate industrial action.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/hapag-lloyd-advanced-talks-acquire-israels-zim-integrated-shipping-2026-02-16\/\">Reuters<\/a> reported that that the deal that would secure the Hamburg-headquartered company\u2019s position as the fifth-largest shipping line in the world with a modern fleet of over 400 vessels. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/hapag-lloyd-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-israels-zim-shipping-giant-workers-go-on-strike\/\">The Times of Israel<\/a> said that following media reports of the sale, Zim\u2019s workers\u2019 union suspended all activities at the company\u2019s Haifa-headquarters as the company\u2019s management started talks with union to avert any \u201cnegative impact on the company\u2019s ongoing operations\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With ZIM operations in more than 90 countries serving 300 ports worldwide, JP Morgan analysts said a deal would allow Hapag-Lloyd to grow its global market share from 7% to just under 9%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hapag-Lloyd have announced that the company will buy Israeli ZIM Integrated Shipping Services for $4.2 billion prompting ZIM employees to take immediate industrial action. Reuters reported that that the deal that would secure the Hamburg-headquartered company\u2019s position as the fifth-largest shipping line in the world with a modern fleet of over 400 vessels. The Times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"footnotes":""},"news-category":[31],"class_list":["post-13757","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13759,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13757\/revisions\/13759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=13757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}