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APM Terminals will enter in the Russian market acquiring 37.5% of Global Ports
The quota will be yielded by the N-Trans Russian for about 860 million dollars
September 10, 2012
Dutch APM Terminals, that he constitutes the terminalista branch of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk, will acquire 37.5% of the capital stock of the Russian terminalista group Global Ports Investments PLC with an investment pairs to about 860 million dollars. APM Terminals will buy the quota from the Russian Transportation Investments Holdings Ltd. (TIHL/N-Trans), than currently stops 75% of the capital of Global Ports, while remaining 25% form the floating capital of the society dealt on the securities market of the Stock exchange of London. APM Terminals and Global Ports have announced that the transaction currency the entire capital stock of Global Ports about 2,3 billion dollars.
APM Terminals has emphasized that with the acquisition of the quota the company will enter in the Russian market and that the transaction will represent the most important realized foreign investment never directed in the field of the transports in Russia. "Russia - the managing director of APM Terminals has declared, Kim Fejfer - will need infrastructures and harbour operating activities of world-wide level in order to serve the total companies of navigation and its same ambitions of economic development".
Global Ports among other things stops the entire capital stock of Petrolesport, that it manages a container terminal in the port of Saint Petersburg that has a annual ability to traffic pairs to beyond a million teu, 75% of Moby Dik, that manages another container terminal in the port of Saint Petersburg of the ability to 400 thousand teu, 75% of Yanino Logistics Park, inland a terminal near Saint Petersburg, 75% of the capital of Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company (VSC), than work a container terminal of the ability to traffic of beyond means million teu per year in the port of Vostochny, 50% of the capital of Vopak E.O.S. (remaining 50% are of property of the Vopak Dutch), that it manages four terminals for producing oil in the Baltic Sea of total storage capability of beyond a million cubic metres, and 75% of Fine-Link Terminals (MLT), than work through MLT-Kotka and MLT-Helsinki container terminal in the Finnish harbour ports of call of Kotka and Vuosaari.
In the 2011 Global Ports has recorded revenues for 501 million dollars and an EBITDA adjusted of 282 million dollars.
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