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CMA CGM has carried to term the acquisition of German OPDR
Green light to the takeover from the EU commission
July 8, 2015
the EU commission, according to the regulations EU on the concentrations, has authorized the French shipowning group CMA CGM to buy German OPDR (Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei GmbH & Co. KG)(of 26 November 2014). Brussels has established that the takeover it does not determine problems from the point of view of the competition as - has explained the Commission - the operation does not involve an increase of costs for the customers, that they can use also alternative means of transport like the road haulage or the rail shipment, sussistono obstacles for the current concurrent operators not to introduce new services or to upgrade those existing introducing new ships or new ports of port of call in the within of the European market of the transport of short sea shipping and in when the total consistency of the interested markets is limited.
the acquisition of OPDR from CMA CGM has happened slid 1° the July. "This new acquisition - French Farid Salem has commented the member of the board of directors of the shipowning group - strengthens the presence of the group in the market in increase of the sea transport short and is online with the accentuation of the strategy for a regional net that we have started in 2002 with the acquisition of the MacAndrews. So as we have made with this controlled, we want to preserve the OPDR, to develop it and to create new interactions with the MacAndrews and the group CMA CGM".
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