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.
TAR court rejects Spinelli group appeal against PSA-Sech merger in Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 31, 2022 – The judges of the TAR (tribunale amministrativo regionale, regional court) have rejected the appeal of the...
Port of Taşucu transfers to CEY Group joint venture
Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) January 28, 2022 – Following a government tender, Ceynak Lojistik ve Ticaret A.Ş. and Ceyport Terminal Lojistik ve...
Rubis Terminal Infra SAS sells Turkish asset Rubis Terminal Petrol to Transpet
Iskenderun, Turkey (Ports Europe) January 19, 2022 – France’s Rubis Terminal Infra SAS has completed the sale of Turkish asset Rubis Terminal...
Greece launches the tender process for the marina of Itea
Patras, Greece (Ports Europe) January 18, 2022 – The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund S.A. (HRADF) has launched a tender process for the...
HIG Capital buys a logistics facility in the Basque country
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 18, 2022 – U.S. investment fund HIG Capital lands has purchased of just over 100,000 m² in Júndiz (Álava), the...
Dredging of Varna port could stop after €222 million spent to improve access to a terminal privatised by a controversial local politician
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) January 17, 2022 – The dredging of the two main access canals of Bulgaria’s largest Black Sea port of Varna to a depth of up...
Belgian competition authority clears merger between the ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) January 11, 2022 – The Belgian competition authority (ABC) has approved the de facto merger between the port of Antwerp...
Konecranes partners with Pesmel to supply automated warehouse container handling systems
Helsinki, Finland (Ports Europe) January 11, 2022 – Konecranes and Pesmel will cooperate to supply automated warehouse container handling technology for...
Yilport takes full control of the Lisbon container terminal
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 10, 2022 – Turkish port and terminal operator Yilport has purchased the 16.34% share in Liscont Operadores de...
Kherson Sea Commercial Port under concessionaire ownership
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 3, 2022 – The ownership of Kherson Sea Commercial Port has been transferred to new concessionaires LLC...
“Russian tsar of Thessaloniki” now owns 71.85% of city’s port. Russia and China via proxies now control Greece’s second largest port
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) December 24, 2021 – Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) has reported that Belterra Investments Ltd., owned by a Russian...
Tanger Med and Tanger Med 2 to merge into one new legal entity
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 19, 2021 – It has been agreed that Tanger Med Port Authority (TMPA) will merge with and acquire Tanger Med 2...
QTerminals to operate Antalya Port until 2047
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 17, 2021 – In October last year, QTerminals, a Qatari commercial port operating company, purchased Ortadoğu...
French shipbuilder Piriou acquires Romanian shipyard
Bucharest, Romania (PortSEurope) December 15, 2021 – Brittany-based French shipbuilder Chantiers Piriou has acquired ATG Shipyard on the Danube in...
HIG Capital moves towards acquisition of Noatum
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 9, 2021 – The US fund HIG Capital, via its infrastructure investment vehicle, is favourite to acquire Noatum from...
Israel Shipyards to proceed with Haifa port privatisation bid
Haifa, Israel (PortSEurope) December 9, 2021 – Following the withdrawal of DP World from a joint bid for the Haifa port privatisation with Israel...
Sanmar acquires third shipyard in Turkey.
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 8, 2021 – Tugboat builder Sanmar has announced that it has acquired a third shipyard in Turkey, in addition to...
CEY Group to take over Taşucu Port
Mersin, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 6, 2021 – With a bid of TL684 million, a CEY group joint venture has acquired a 40-year concession to operate...
S5 Agency World expands to become world’s leading port services company
Rotterdam, Netherlands (PortSEurope) December 3, 2021 – First Dutch has acquired the S5 Agency world shares of Marmedsa Noatum Maritime and Kanoo...
Greece launches the tender process for the marina of Pylos
Athens, Greece (PortSEurope) December 1, 2021 – The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) has launched an international tender process for the...