Highstar agrees to purchase MTC Holdings

Headquartered in San Francisco, MTCH is one of the largest independent terminal operators in the US, with extensive operations on the West Coast and growing operations on the East and Gulf coasts. MTCH provides a full suite of stevedoring and other terminal operating and logistics services, and has operations at 32 terminals at key strategic ports, including Oakland, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Seattle, Tacoma, Baltimore and Savannah. MTCH CEO Doug Tilden and the existing MTCH management team will continue to manage the business following its acquisition by Highstar.

“Thanks to the stewardship of Chris Redlich’s family, MTCH has grown to be a pre-eminent terminal operator and stevedore in the US, with significant growth potential in both the US and Mexico,” said Christopher Lee, an AIGGIG managing director and the managing partner of Highstar. “MTCH also has a first-rate management team [and] we are pleased to have the opportunity to add [it] to our diversified portfolio of North American port operators.”

MTCH has been a leader in developing and deploying terminal operating systems (TOS) and the process disciplines that support them. Its operating arm MTC’s M21 TOS is an industry leader in maximising the utilisation of terminal resources and improving terminal processes at US ports.