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group MSC consolidates its presence in the terminal of transhipment of Las Palmas
the shipowning society will elevate to 57% own participation in Operaciones Portuarias Canarias
September 4, 2015
The shipowning group Genevan Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) will acquire the control of the Spanish Operaciones Portuarias Canarias S.A. (OPCSA), society that manages the greatest container terminal of the port of Las Palmas, in the Canarian Islands. Group MSC, that it stops 33% of the OPCSA capital, in fact has tightened an agreement in order to acquire for about 20 million euros an ulterior quota pairs to 25% stopped from the harbour operator Javier Esquivel. Remaining 43% about of the capital are in the hands of the harbour group Spanish Noatum Ports.
Currently the terminal to the Muelle León y Castillo managed from OPCSA enlivens a annual containerized trade pairs to about 600 thousand teu. Group MSC, that she is the main customer of the terminal, has the intention of increase own quota enlivened traffic of transhipment to Las Palmas.
The OPCSA terminal has a line of dock of 1.440 linear meters with depth of the backdrop from -14 to -18 meters and, beyond to a means series of large square handling, it is equipped with two crane of super dock post-Panamax, four cranes of dock post-Panamax and two crane of Panamax dock.
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The shipowning group Genevan Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) will acquire the control of the Spanish Operaciones Portuarias Canarias S.A. (OPCSA), society that manages the greatest container terminal of the port of Las Palmas, in the Canarian Islands. Group MSC, that it stops 33% of the OPCSA capital, in fact has tightened an agreement in order to acquire for about 20 million euros an ulterior quota pairs to 25% stopped from the harbour operator Javier Esquivel. Remaining 43% about of the capital are in the hands of the harbour group Spanish Noatum Ports.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
