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The active trust InfraMed invests in the development of the Turkish port of Iskenderun
Bought 20% of the capital of Limak Iskenderun
March 26, 2012
The active trust InfraMed, that it is constituted in the 2010 by the institutional investors Bank of Deposits and Loans (Italy), Caisse de Dépôts ET de Consignations (France), Caisse de Dépôts ET de Gestion (Morocco), EFG Hermes (Egypt) and from the European Investment Bank (BEAUTIFUL), invests in the development of the Turkish port of Iskenderun.
Holding InfraMinervois, society integrally controlled from InfraMed, in fact has bought 20% of the capital stock of the Limak Iskenderun Ulusararasi Isletmeciligi A.S., society of the Limak group that has acquired the Turkish port last December and that it will develop and manage the port of the Anatolia for a period 36-year-old ( on 30 December 2011). The quota is yielded by the Turkish group Limak, that it stops remaining 80% of Limak Iskenderun.
"InfraMed - the president of the active trust has declared, Franco Bassanini - has entered in its operating in the next few months phase and it previews to announce other investments that currently are in advanced phase. Shortly the objective will begin also the activity of collection of resources (is to reach quota a billion of euro, ndr). InfraMed will carry out an important role which instrument of cooperation between Europe and the nations of the Africa North and the East in what it is a Mediterranean basin of crucial importance".
According to the forecasts, the first phase of development of the port of Iskenderun will have an ability to traffic of the container pairs to beyond 1,3 million teu.
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