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Mergers/Acquisition/Privatisation

Mergers/Acquisition/Privatisation describes the consolidation of companies or assets through various types of financial transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, state privatisation, consolidations, tender offers, purchase of assets, and management acquisitions. Also includes port privatisation and port concessions which include equity holdings.

New shareholders enter PSA Italia

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 22, 2024 – FMV Industrial Infrastructure Fund I SCSp and TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (Global Master) SCSp have...

Rubis to sell 55% of terminal business to I Squared Capital

Paris, France (Ports Europe) March 19, 2024 – Rubis has announces that the exclusive negotiations opened with I Squared Capital concerning the sale of...

Greece’s Port of Lavrio prepares for part-privatisation

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) March 7, 2024 – The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) has announced the launch of the international tender...

Authorities to investigate Terminal San Giorgio purchase by Ignazio Messina

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 5, 2024 – The Antitrust Authority (AGCM) will investigate the acquisition of the entire share capital of the Genoese...

Seventh attempt to sell Ukraine’s Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi port

Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 5, 2024 – A seventh attempt will be made for the sale of Ukraine’s Black Sea port of...

MSC reportedly acquired 50% of Italy’s RHE

Rivalta, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2024 – Switzerland-based shipping giant Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has reportedly acquired a 50% stake...

Ukraine’s Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Sea Trade Port for sale – again

Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 1, 2024 – The State Property Fund of Ukraine plans to sell/privatise Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Sea Trade Port via an...

Commission clears acquisition of Bolloré Logistics by CMA CGM

The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed acquisition of Bolloré Logistics SE by CMA CGM S.A. The approval is...

ZeroNorth and Alpha Ori Technologies to merge

Copenhagen, Denmark (Ports Europe) February 22, 2024 – ZeroNorth and Alpha Ori Technologies have received all required regulatory approval to merge their...

HHLA’s Metrans acquires 100% of Adria Rail

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) February 19, 2024 – Metrans, the international rail intermodal, transporter, has acquired 100% of Adria Rail. Metrans had...

Verdi trade union plans protest against MSC-HHLA deal

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) February 19, 2024 – The Verdi trade union is planning a protest next Wednesday against the deal whereby MSC-Mediterranean...

Gantrex acquired Liftcom, targets PCS

Nivelles, Belgium (Ports Europe) February 15, 2024 – Gantrex Group, with its majority shareholder Argos Wityu, has acquired Liftcom to support its...

GIP sells the Darsena Toscana Terminal to Grimaldi

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 14, 2024 – Infracapital and InfraVia Capital Partners today completed the sale of their 100% stake in Terminal...

Green light for MSC-HHLA deal

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) February 14, 2024 – The senate in Hamburg has agreed to the sale of 49.9% of  HHLA-Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG to...

MSC interested in acquiring Wartsila facility in Trieste

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 14, 2024 – International logistics company MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. has indicated an interest in...

Romanian government blocks sale of stake in Constanta port

Constanța, Romania (Ports Europe) February 14, 2024 – Shareholders of Fondul Proprietatea have rejected a proposal made by the Fund’s...

Delo secures full control over Novorossiysk KSK grain terminal

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) February 10, 2024 – Russia’s Delo Group has closed the deal agreed in September 2023 to buy the last remaining stake of...

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