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.
CIRCLE announces alliance with Magellan and Circle Connecting EU NewCo are fully operational
Genoa, January 29th, 2021 Circle S.p.A., a company specialized in the analysis and development of automation and digitalization solutions for port and...
DP World makes progress in Haifa port bid
Haifa, Israel (PortSEurope) January 29, 2021 – Officials in Israel have approved DP World as a bidder in the tender to operate facilities at Haifa port....
Global Ports Holding completes sale of Port Akdeniz, Port of Adria future under consideration
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) January 27, 2021 – Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), a global independent cruise port operator, has announced that further...
Boluda Towage acquires Dutch Towage & Salvage Company Iskes
Vicente Boluda Ceballos, Boluda Towage SL, and Jim Iskes has today signed in Amsterdam an agreement with the Dutch family-owned Towage & Salvage company,...
Ukraine discusses port investment with Turkish companies
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 22, 2021 – Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine, Vladyslav Krykliy, has held a working meeting with...
Rotterdam Short Sea Terminals to be sold to investors
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, January 18t, 2021 – Crestline Investors, Inc., a global institutional private capital investment management firm, and Blue Ocean...
CEVA Logistics accelerates expansion in Africa with acquisition of ASTI Group in Morocco
Marseille, France, January 7, 2021 – CEVA Logistics’ strategic expansion plan across the African continent is further gathering pace with the...
Alimos marina concession awarded to Aktor
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 3, 2021 – The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) has awarded a 40-year concession to use and manage...
F2i Port Holding acquires MarterNeri and becomes Italy’s leading port operator in the dry bulk sector
F2i Port Holding acquires MarterNeri and becomes Italy’s leading port operator in the dry bulk sector, a strategic sector for Italian industry –...
Duisport acquires 15% of Interporto di Trieste
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 15, 2020 – Duisburger Hafen AG (Duisport), an intermodal terminal operator, has purchased a 15% share stake in...
A.P. Moller Capital acquires 40% stake in Moroccan port grain facilities
Casablanca, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 4, 2020 – A.P. Moller Capital has, via the Africa Infrastructure Fund 1, acquired a 49% shareholding in...
COSCO claims further 16% of Piraeus Port Authority
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) November 29, 2020 – COSCO Shipping Ports Limited has sent an official letter to the Greek government requesting a further...
Ukraine plans further public-private partnership projects – port of Chernomorsk next
The Ministry of Infrastructure continues to prepare new public-private partnership (PPP) projects in various infrastructure sectors and is actively preparing...
40% of priority investment projects in Ukraine are in infrastructure and transport
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) November 23, 2020 – Minister of Infrastructure, Vladislav Krykliy, has announced that the government has approved a list of...
Fincantieri to take over INSO – Sistemi per le Infrastrutture Sociali
Fincantieri, through its subsidiary Fincantieri Infrastructure, will take over INSO – Sistemi per le Infrastrutture Sociali, and its subsidiary SOF, part...
Drydocks World expands into Montenegro, Eastern Mediterranean
Drydocks World, a DP World company, joins consortium to transform the Bijela Shipyard, Montenegro, into a world-class superyacht service, maintenance, repair...
Chantiers de l’Atlantique-Fincantieri merger delayed until year-end
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) November 6, 2020 – A few days before the merger of France’s Chantiers de l’Atlantique and Italy’s...