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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.

Ten investment schemes submit expressions of interest for Alimos Marina, Greece

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 6, 2018 – The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF – Greek privatisation agency) has announced...

Thessaloniki Port Authority signs concession agreement with the state

Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) February 6, 2018 – Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A. (ThPA) has announced that on Friday February 2, 2018, the...

Greece invites expressions of interest in Chios marina

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 5, 2018 – The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HDRAF), the Greek privatisation agency, has received...

U.S. developing interest in Alexandroupolis port

Alexandroupoli, Greece (Ports Europe) February 5, 2018 – The privatization of the port of Alexandroupoli is ongoing, and the United States and its...

Fincantieri purchases TSX France for €59.7 million

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 4, 2018 – Fincantieri S.p.A., via subsidiary Fincantieri Europe S.p.A., has signed the share purchase agreement...

Erdogan visit to Rome raises issue of Turkish interests in Italian ports

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) February 1, 2018 – A visit by the Turkish president to Rome next week raises a number of issues considering the involvement of...

Xiao Yaqing, director of COSCO, visits Noatum terminal in Valencia port

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 30, 2018 – On January 27, COSCO Director Xiao Yaqing and his delegation, accompanied by Xu Lirong, Chairman of...

China Merchants Port Holdings shows interest in Alicante port

Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) January 25, 2018 – China Merchants Port Holdings is reported as being interested in Alicante’s Free Trade Zone and...

Greece promotes regional port privatistion

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 19, 2018 – “There is great interest in these strategically important ports”, said a senior official of...

Alexandroupoli set to emerge as an energy hub

Alexandroupoli, Greece (PortSEurope) January 16, 2018 – The Greek port of Alexandroupoli is gearing up for becoming energy and commercial hub. The port...

GEFCO acquires Spanish company GLT, a transport specialist

Paris, France (PortSEurope) January 12, 2018 – GEFCO Group, a global player in industrial logistics and automotive logistics, has acquired Spanish...

Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund to present regional port privatisation report

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 11, 2018 – A study on the exploitation of the ten major ports of the country through the concession process is to...

Greece has high expectations for regional port privatisation

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 11, 2018 – Following the privatization of Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (now managed by China’s COSCO Shipping...

Announcement regarding amendments to articles of the statute of Thessaloniki Port Authority

Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) January 7, 2018 – The new text of the Articles of the Statute seeks in general to codify and consistently restructure...

New Thessaloniki Port Authority owners meet port management

Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) January 7, 2018 – Representatives of South Europe Gateway Thessaloniki (SEGT) Limited and executives of Terminal Link...

Trabzonport to trade on stock market this month

Trabzon, Turkey (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – The initial public offering (IPO) of 30% of the Trabzonport, whose right to operate is held by...

DP World Group start operations in Ukraine

Yuzhniy, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – P&O Maritime, a company owned by port operator DP World Group, started to operate in Ukraine in...

Thessaloniki Port Authority sees record container numbers in 2017

Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A. (ThPA) closed 2017 with more than 400,000 TEUs being transported,...

Cosco looks at further investments in Italian ports

Milan, Italy (PortSEurope) December 28, 2017 – Chinese businesses continue to explore further investments in Mediterranean ports and in particular in...

HDRAF signs sale of Thessaloniki Port Authority to South Europe Gateway Thessaloniki Limited

Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) December 22, 2017 – The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF), the state privatisation agency, has issued a...

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