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group MSC buys railway operator portuguese CP Charges
the investment of the Helvetic shipowning group piles to 53 million euros
January 28, 2016
MSC Rail, railway society of the shipowning group Helvetic Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), has carried to term the acquisition of Portuguese CP Charges - Logística and Transportes Ferroviários de Mercadorias, railway company constituted in the 2009 and previously of entire property of the railway group public Portuguese Combois de Portugal (CP).
The investment by group MSC piles to 53 million euros, of which 51 million euros that will be used for the CP recapitalization Charges. With transaction MSC Rail it has obtained 95% of the capital of the portuguese company, while remaining 5% will be offered to the dependent of the railway society.
Giuseppe Prudente, responsible for the MSC logistics, has emphasized that with the acquisition the portuguese society will be able to be developed and to become one of the main operators in the Iberian Peninsula. Moreover Prudent he has specified that the investment demonstrates the engagement of group MSC in confronts of Portugal and the development of its logistic field.
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