Only the owners Aponte (MSC), Grimaldi (Grimaldi Group) and Onorato (Moby) would need to acquire the shipping company Tirrenia public. That of the three owners, meeting in the Italian consortium Compagnia di Navigazione, is the only concrete offer economic submitted by 12.00 pm yesterday, the expiry date of the tender for the privatization of the company. The financial offer was less than 380 million euro, which is the value estimated by the Bank of Tirrenia Profile, advisor appointed by the Ministry of Economic Development, but that figure with a series of implementations.
In fact, the special commissioner of Tirrenia and its subsidiary Siremar, Giancarlo D'Andrea, has announced that by this time received "two and two envelopes for Tirrenia Siremar. However, one of the packages for Tirrenia include a letter of willingness to prepare an offer sent by the Mediterranean Navigation Holding (Group Lauro).D'Andrea said, however, that for Tirrenia 'bids received allow the continuation of the next phase before the final award. "
For Siremar, whose starting price was set at EUR 55 million, the two packages contained a similar proposal for a Mediterranean Holding Navigation and another manifestation of willingness to prepare a bid submitted by Ustica Lines. For the award of the special commissioner Siremar intention to proceed on the basis of Law 39 of February 18, 2004 that, as a measure for the industrial restructuring of large insolvent firms, would allow the sale of assets, businesses or branches of companies by private treaty.
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Only the owners Aponte (MSC), Grimaldi (Grimaldi Group) and Onorato (Moby) would need to acquire the shipping company Tirrenia public. That of the three owners, meeting in the Italian consortium Compagnia di Navigazione, is the only concrete offer economic submitted by 12.00 pm yesterday, the expiry date of the tender for the privatization of the company. The financial offer was less than 380 million euro, which is the value estimated by the Bank of Tirrenia Profile, advisor appointed by the Ministry of Economic Development, but that figure with a series of implementations. 
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