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Brussels authorizes the acquisition of ATIC Services by the ArcelorMittal group
To the French society some of the greatest European harbour terminals for the import of coal and iron mineral are under responsibility
December 2, 2011
The EU commission has authorized the acquisition of French ATIC Services by the ArcelorMittal Netherlands BV, branch of the iron and steel group and mining ArcelorMittal. Brussels has explained that with the acquisition of ATIC, that the logistic chain for the import and the ulterior internal transport in the EU mainly of coal and iron mineral supplies services long stopping in particular a consisting market share in the field of the European harbour terminals used for the import of these materials, indispensable for the production iron worker, and that supplies more in measure limited services for the export of finished product of steel, ArcelorMittal it will not have the ability neither the objective to prevent to the competitors to import these materials to such an extent to create distortions to the competition in communitarian within.
Between the terminalistiche activities that are under responsibility of ATIC figure the terminal EMO (Europees Massagoed Overslagbedrijf) of the port of Rotterdam, the greatest European terminal for the traffic of the bulk sand banks that a traffic of 60 million tons has per year, and the OBA-Bulk terminal of the port of Amsterdam, that it is dedicated mainly to the coal traffic and enlivens 19 million tons annually. Moreover ATIC work in the ports of Flushing, Terneuzen, Dunkerque, the Havre, Marseilles Fos and Danzica.
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