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.
MSC publishes voluntary public takeover offer for HHLA
Geneva, Switzerland (PortSEurope) October 24, 2023 – MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company has published its voluntary public takeover offer for Hamburger...
Grimaldi completes acquisition of Igoumenista port, Greece
Igoumenitsa, Greece (PortSEurope) October 24, 2023 – Italy’s Grimaldi has completed the acquisition of Igoumenista port, Greece, as part of the...
Noatum sells stake in Barcelona Container Depot Service Group
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 5, 2023 – Noatum has sold its 27.9% stake in Barcelona Container Depot Service Group for €11 million. Noatum is...
Thessaloniki Port Authority: Strategic Investment in the Port of Volos
Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA S.A.): Strategic Investment in the Port of Volos – Thessaloniki, October 4, 2023 On September 28, 2023, the Board of...
MSC acquires about 50% in Italo, a private high-speed rail operator
Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) October 3, 2023 – Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has entered into a binding agreement to acquire a stake of approximately...
Noatum acquires Sesé Auto Logistics for €81 million
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) October 3, 2023 – Noatum is set to acquire Sesé Auto Logistics for €81 million. Sesé Auto Logistics is a finished...
Romania wants to buy Moldova’s inland port of Giurgiulesti
Bucharest, Romania (PortSEurope) October 2, 2023 – The Prime Minister of Romania, Marcel Ciolacu, has said that Romania should purchase the Moldovan...
Makhachkala port will not be privatised soon
Makhachkala, Russia (PortSEurope) October 1, 2021 – The long-delayed privatisation of Russia’s Caspian Sea port of Makhachkala, which was to be completed...
Thessaloniki Port Authority is preferred investor for Volos Port sale
Volos, Greece (PortSEurope) September 28, 2023 – Following the unsealing, Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A. (ThPA) is the preferred investor with an offer...
MSC will maintain workers’ rights in Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) September 25, 2023 – Following a workers’ protest in Hamburg, MSC has said that it will maintain workers’...
Pérez y CÃa Group acquires Barcelona Container Depot Service
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 19, 2023 – The Pérez y CÃa Group has acquired Barcelona Container Depot Service, SL ( BCDS), which...
DFDS acquires FRS Iberia
Copenhagen, Denmark (Ports Europe) September 18, 2023 – International shipper DFDS has acquired FRS Iberia from its parent company FRS, a Flensburg-based...
Update: Cargill to sell stake in KSK grain terminal to Delo
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) September 14, 2023 – U.S. commodities giant Cargill has agreed to sell its stake in KSK grain terminal to owner Delo....
Cargill denies KSK grain terminal sale in Novorossiysk, Russia
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) September 14, 2023 – There have been reports in the Russian press that the local Delo Group is acquiring a 25% stake...
MSC bids to acquire HHLA
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) September 13, 2023 – MSC – Mediterranean Shipping Company has made a bid to acquire 49.9% of HHLA-Hamburger...
Greece agrees to Grimaldi ownership of Igoumenitsa port
Igoumenitsa, Greece (Ports Europe) September 11, 2023 – The Greek government has agreed to Grimaldi ownership of port of Igoumenitsa. This is part of the...
Does India’s Adani group want to buy a Greek port?
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 30, 2023 – The local press in India is reporting that the Adani group could be interested in acquiring the rights...
DP World applies to purchase Evyapport, Izmit, Turkey
Kocaeli, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 29, 2023 – Dubai-based DP World has applied to the Competition Authority to purchase Evyapport in the Gulf of...
Second attempt to sell Uljanik shipyard fails
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) August 28, 2023 – No bids were received in an auction for Croatian shipyard Uljanik Brodogradnja 1856. Available for...
Port of Volos continues to import cars, privatisation approaches
Volos, Greece (Ports Europe) August 24, 2023 – On July 7 and 19, two Ro-Ro vessels delivered over 1,600 cars. Another vessel is on its way to the port...