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Katoen Native-born anticipates a proposal in order to realize according to container a terminal in the port of Montevideo
Announced the possible investment of 75 million dollars
March 11, 2013
The Administración Nacional de Puertos (ANP), the governmental agency that manages the ports publics of Uruguay, has announced that the Belgian group Katoen Native-born has expressed intention the intention to invest 75 million dollars for the realization of according to container a terminal in the Uruguayan port. Katoen Native-born and ANP are partner in Native-born the terminalista society Katoen TCP Terminal, of which they stop respective 80% and 20% of the share capital, than from the 2002 work the Cuenca Terminal of the Plata, the container terminal of the port of Montevideo. The president of ANP, Alberto Díaz, has specified that in exchange for the Katoen investment Native-born has demanded an extension of the concession contract that currently has a duration 30-year-old.
We remember that three years ago the Belgian group was opposite to the initiative of the government in order to realize according to container a terminal in the port of Montevideo through a contest, that had gone desert ( on 18 March 2010).
Last year the port of Montevideo has enlivened a traffic of the containers pairs to 753.889 teu, with a bending of 12.5% regarding 2011.
Katoen Native-born is present in Italy with the branch Katoen Native-born Italy that manages a logistics center for producing petrochemical to Cremona and that last year it has acquired the control of the interportuale society Interporto Rivalta Scrivia ( on 7 June and 11 October 2012).
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The Administración Nacional de Puertos (ANP), the governmental agency that manages the ports publics of Uruguay, has announced that the Belgian group Katoen Native-born has expressed intention the intention to invest 75 million dollars for the realization of according to container a terminal in the Uruguayan port. Katoen Native-born and ANP are partner in Native-born the terminalista society Katoen TCP Terminal, of which they stop respective 80% and 20% of the share capital, than from the 2002 work the Cuenca Terminal of the Plata, the container terminal of the port of Montevideo. The president of ANP, Alberto Díaz, has specified that in exchange for the Katoen investment Native-born has demanded an extension of the concession contract that currently has a duration 30-year-old.
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