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the society of private equities KKR is ready to sell the company of Turkish navigation U.N Ro-Ro
the association of international conveyors Turkish UND is interested to acquire the quota
December 6, 2013
The American society of private equities Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) has the intention of sell the company of Turkish navigation U.N Ro-Ro, than currently work services ro-ro between Turkey and Italy (Pendik/Mersina-Trieste), between Turkey to France (Pendik-Tolone) and between Turkey and Egypt/Saudi Arabia (Iskenderun-Damietta-Dhuba). It has communicated the news agency "Bloomberg" explaining that KKR has charged Goldman Sachs to take care of the cession.
The American society has acquired 97.6% of the capital of U.N Ro-Ro in 2007 with an investment of about 910 million euros. Remaining 2.4% of the capital of the Turkish company are in the hands of the Uluslararasi Nakliyeciler Dernegi (UND), the association of the Turkish international conveyors. It prints Turk has announced that, come to acquaintance of the KKR intention to sell the participation, the president of UND, Cetin Nuhoglu, she has declared that the association is interested to the acquisition of the quota.
Last year the ships of U.N Ro-Ro have transported altogether beyond 200 thousand vehicles in the connections from and for Turkey. On the single route between Istanbul and Trieste vehicles towards Italy are transported 58 thousand and 62 thousand towards Turkey, on that between Mersina and Trieste the total have been of 17 thousand vehicles towards Trieste and 19 thousand towards the Turkish port, while between Istanbul and Tolone the company has transported 16 thousand vehicles in France and 18 thousand in Turkey.
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