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.
Grimaldi consortium to acquire 67% of Igoumenitsa Port Authority
Igoumenitsa, Greece (PortSEurope) March 21, 2023 – A consortium led by Italy’s Grimaldi Group has won the tender to acquire 67% of Igoumenitsa Port...
Ferretti Group acquires shipyard in San Vitale, Ravenna
Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) March 21, 2023 – The Ferretti Group has acquired a shipyard of over 70,000 m², including a dry dock, in San Vitale, in...
Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane takes stake in Duisburg Terminal
Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) March 20, 2023 – Samskip, duisport and TX Logistik AG will jointly operate a combined transport terminal at logport III in...
Port Acquisitions to make offer for Luka Rijeka
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) March 17, 2023 – Newly-established company Port Acquisitions, fully owned by Czech industrial group CE Industries, must...
Russia’s Port of Taganrog sold to obscure company
Taganrog, Russia (PortSEurope) March 15, 2023 – One of Russia’s richest oligarchs, billionaire Vladimir Lisin, has sold 91.63% of the shares...
French shipper CMA CGM will take 12% stake in Brittany Ferries
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) March 15, 2023 – The French shipowner CMA CGM is to take a 12% stake in Brittany Ferries, by converting a loan into...
EU Commission approves AD Ports takeover of Noatum
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) March 14, 2023 – The European Commission has given the green light today to the entry of AD Ports Group, a port company...
Update – Ukrainian Bilhorod-Dniester Sea Trade Port sold at auction for $5.9 million
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) March 13, 2023 – Bilhorod-Dniester Sea Trade Port has sold at auction for $5.9 million, Alexander Slavsky, head of the...
Kernel buys terminal at Sea Trade Port Pivdennyi, Odessa
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) March 6, 2023 – Agricultural exporter Kernel has acquired an oil export terminal in Pivdennyi, Odessa. The terminal can...
TTS to purchase Romanian port operator Decirom SA
Bucharest, Romania (PortSEurope) February 24, 2023 – TTS (Transport Trade Services) has announced plans to buy an unidentified port operator for the sum...
MSC receives approval for Trieste Marine Terminal takeover
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) February 22, 2023 – The Competition and Market Authority has approved MSC as the new controlling shareholder in Trieste...
Yilport Holding acquires Port of Šibenik, Croatia
Šibenik, Croatia (PortSEurope) February 22, 2023 – Yilport Holding has taken over the operations at Port of Šibenik, located on the Adriatic coast of...
Maersk to divest logistics sites in St. Petersburg and Novorossiysk
Copehagen, Denmark (PortSEurope) February 20, 2023 – A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk) has entered into an agreement to divest its logistics sites in...
Itelyum set to acquire two Port Ravenna waste businesses
Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) February 20, 2023 – Itelyum, an operator in waste management, is set to acquire majority shareholdings in Secomar S.p.A. and...
OT Logistics, Rubicon Partners are set to sell shares in Luka Rijeka
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) February 14, 2023 – OT Logistics and venture capital fund Rubicon Partners are set to to exit Croatian port operator Luka...
CMA CGM enters into exclusive discussions to acquire La Méridionale
The CMA CGM Group announces that it has entered into exclusive discussions with the STEF group to acquire 100% of La Méridionale, a maritime company for mixed...
CMA CGM set to acquire La Méridionale
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 10, 2023 – French logistics giant CMA CGM is set to acquire Ro-Pax company La Méridionale, the latest in a run...
Italy’s Grimaldi acquires new terminal in Amsterdam port
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 10, 2023 – Via subsidiary Amsterdam Multipurpose Terminal (AMT), the Grimaldi Group has acquired a 20-year...
Ukraine to privatise Bilhorod-Dniester Sea Trade Port
Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 8, 2023 – On March 3, the State Property Fund will hold a privatization auction for the sale of SE...
CMA CGM, Barcelona Port Authority acquire control of Puerto Seco Azuqueca de Henares
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2023 – CMA CGM and Port of Barcelona have received approval from the markets and competitions...