{"id":2813,"date":"2009-04-14T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2009\/04\/14\/hph-axes-business-development-jobs\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:25:32","slug":"hph-axes-business-development-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2009\/04\/14\/hph-axes-business-development-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"HPH axes business development jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the jobs affected are in Hong Kong and Rotterdam, while two or three people based in Felixstowe and working in the department&#8217;s European division are thought to have left.<\/p>\n<p>HPH declined to give details of the move but a spokesman said: &#8220;We assess all aspects of our business on a regular basis and plan our resources according to market developments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>HPH decentralised business development activities to divisional level in 2006. &#8220;It [business development] forms part of the planning for each division but there are no specific departments as such. Individuals may be assigned specific projects on a case-by-case basis. Thus, heads of different geographies have been managing business development projects within their respective territories since then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All HPH regions will continue to look for opportunities &#8220;but these have to reflect the prevailing market conditions&#8221;, said the spokesman. &#8220;HPH will continue to assess investments globally on a case-by-case basis and there is no change to our policy in this regard.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global port operator Hutchison Port Holdings is closing its business development department, with job losses said to be between 50 and 60 as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}