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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.

Spain’s Noatum expects Cosco deal to boost container traffic

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Spain’s Noatum Port Holdings S.L.U. expects the strategic partnership agreement signed with Cosco...

Cosco’s acquisition of Noatum is encouraging for Valencia’s economic growth 

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – The arrival of a Chinese state-owned company to Valencia port, after the acquisition of Noatum Ports...

Cosco includes Valencia’s traffic in China’s Silk Road

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – The nearly 300 vessels of the world’s fourth largest shipping company each year move 1.6 million...

Cosco Shipping Ports Limited acquisition of interest in Noatum Port Holdings in Spain

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Cosco Shipping Ports Limited has published the following press release regarding its acquisition of Noatum...

Cosco agrees to acquire 51% stake in Noatum Ports

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Chinese company Cosco Shipping Ports Limited has signed an agreement to acquire a 51% stake in the capital of...

France’s Macron seeks review of STX shipyard sale to Fincantieri

Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) JUne 12, 2017 – New French President Emmanuel Macron has said that the recently announced deal for Fincantieri of...

DP World acquires Spanish maritime services firm

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 8, 2017 – DP World Limited said its subsidiary P&O Maritime acquired Spanish maritime services company Reyser...

Russia’s Summa Group mulls acquisition of Transneft’s stake in NCSP

Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) June 1, 2017 – Russian diversified private holding company Summa Group is considering the acquisition of a stake of JSC...

Russia will not privatise 20% stake in NCSP in 2017

Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) May 25, 2017 – The privatisation of Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP) will not take place in 2017, Deputy Finance...

Spain’s Europac completes sale of Viana do Castelo port unit

Viana do Castelo, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish company Papeles y Cartones de Europe S.A. (Europac) has completed the sale of Europac...

OT Logistics ready to continue cooperation with Montenegro regarding the Bar port development

Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – OT Logistics S.A. has received an official notification from Montenegro on the decision of the Council for...

Fincantieri acquires control of STX France

Trieste, May 19, 2017 – Fincantieri S.p.A. has announced that it signed today a share purchase agreement for the acquisition of 66.66% of the share capital...

Poland’s OT Logistics places fresh bid for 30% stake in Luka Bar

Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – The Montenegrin privatisation council said it has received a new and “more profitable” bid for the...

South Korea’s HMM to acquire entire capital of TTI Algeciras

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 15, 2017 – South Korean shipping company Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) said that it will buy the entire share capital of...

Greek state to keep control of some regional ports

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) May 14, 2017 – State sell-off fund TAIPED will retain control of 10 regional ports of international interest, with the aim...

Thessaloniki Port Authority: Results of tax audit fiscal 2005-2011

Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) May 14, 2017 – The Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A. (ThPA SA) has announced that the ordinary tax audit for the years...

Montenegro’s Bosniak Party (BS) seeks to control Bar port operator

Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) May 11, 2017 – Montenegrin port operator Luka Bar a.d. has delayed its shareholders’ meeting that had to be carried out...

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