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.
Verdi organises demonstration against proposed MSC-HHLA deal
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) September 2, 2024 – Last Saturday, the German trade union Verdi organised a demonstration in Hamburg against the planned...
Update: BMF Port Burgas vs Romanian government for Moldova’s Giurgiulesti Port
Giurgiulesti, Moldova (Ports Europe) August 29, 2024 – The Romanian government approved on August 28 the start of negotiations with the European Bank for...
Update: Romania wants to buy Moldova’s Giurgiulesti port from EBRD
Giurgiulesti, Moldova (Ports Europe) August 29, 2024 – The Romanian government has approved the start of negotiations with the European Bank for...
Romania, Turkey, Netherlands, Denmark firms interested in EBRD’s Giurgiulesti port
Giurgiulesti, Moldova (Ports Europe) August 29, 2024 – The state-owned part of landlocked Moldova’s only port of Giurgiulesti on the Danube River...
Rimorchiatori sardi to take over Moby concessions in Sardinia
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) August 28, 2024 – Rimorchiatori Sardi will take over the towage concessions held by Moby Spa in the ports where...
Delo Group completes integration of DeloTech
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) August 23, 2024 – DeloTech has integrated ROLIS LLC, a leading Russian developer of digital solutions for freight logistics...
PSA acquires 85% stake in Poland’s intermodal operator Loconi
Gdynia, Poland (Ports Europe) August 20, 2024 – PSA Baltics, a subsidiary of PSA International, a leading global port operator, signed an agreement to...
Noatum acquires Safina ship agency, Egypt
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2024 – Noatum has acquired a majority stake in Safina B.V., an Egypt-based provider of maritime agency and...
PSA acquires Polish intermodal company
Warsaw, Poland (Ports Europe) August 12, 2024 – PSA Baltics N.V., part of PSA International (PSA), has signed an agreement to acquire an 85% stake in...
MSC completes the purchase of Italian AlisCargo Airlines
Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) August 1, 2024 – MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. MSC has completed the purchase of the capital of the Italian airline...
Wartsila to transfer its manufacturing site in Trieste, Italy to shipping company MSC
Wärtsilä Corporation, Press release 1 August 2024 In July 2022, technology group Wärtsilä announced a plan to ramp down manufacturing in...
Grimaldi completes purchase of Port of Heraklion
Athens, Greece (Ports Europe) July 26, 2024 – The Deputy Minister of Shipping, Stefanos Gikas, has reported that 67% of the shares of the Heraklion Port...
MSC & two Belgian firms to takeover inland Port of Limburg
Genk, Belgium (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – The Swiss logistics group MSC, Henri Essers en Zonen Internationaal Transport and Machiels (JM Recycling)...
Management buyout could save Cantiere Navale Vittoria
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – Earlier this year, Cantiere Navale Vittoria, a shipbuilding company, filed a restructuring plan with the...
DP World & Evyap Group merge to create new trade hub, Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 19, 2024 – DP World and Evyap Group have merged port assets in the Sea of Marmara to create a new international...
Login Delo to acquire Korsakov Commercial Sea Port, Sakhalin
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 17, 2024 – Login Delo LLC has agreed to acquire 64.26% of the shares in the Korsakov Commercial Sea Port (KMTP) on...
EU Commission receives complaint on HHLA-MSC deal
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) July 17, 2024 – Norbert Hackbusch, speaker on ports for the “die Linke” political party, has submitted a...
Noatum is in advanced discussions to acquire Grupo Algeposa
Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 15, 2024 – Port operator Noatum is in advanced discussions to acquire Grupo Algeposa, a railway and maritime logistics...
Cantieri di Puglia to take over Belleli year in Port of Taranto
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) July 12, 2024 – Cantieri di Puglia has signed an agreement with the Ferretti group, to take over its project to build a new...
Global Ports recommends takeover by Global Yatirim Holding
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) July 12, 2024 – Global Ports Holding PLC has agreed to be bought by its largest shareholder Global Yatirim Holding...