To deep the Infracapital and InfraVia almost the totality of the capital of the Group Harbour Investments



Deep the Infracapital, infrastructural bottom of M&G Investments based in London, and InfraVia, with center to Paris, an agreement has undersigned in order to acquire almost the totality of the share capital of the genoese Group Harbour Investments (JEEP), one of the main Italian terminals operator. The two deep ones will share in equal quotas 95% of the capital of the JEEP, that it is constituted in the 1993 by Luigi Negri (Finsea group with a participation of 40%), Giovanni Cerruti (Gastaldi group, 30%), the family Magillo (20%) and Giulio Schenone (10%) of the Thos. Carr & Is. Remaining 5% of the capital will be stopped by Giulio Schenone who will become the new managing director of the JEEP.

JEEP work mainly through four terminaliste societies that in the 2016 have enlivened a containerized trade pairs altogether to beyond 2,6 million teu. The Southern European Container Hub (SECH) - Terminal Containers Port of Genoa Spa, one of the first terminaliste societies private Italians, manages from 1993 the container terminal of Descent Health in the port of Genoa. Until the half of the 2008 entire share capital of the SECH entirely it was stopped by the JEEP through the Seber. As a result of an agreement for a share exchange, that it has surprised many observatories, 40% of the capital of the Seber is yielded to the PSA Europe, society that terminalista group PSA of Singapore is under responsibility of, than through the Sinport Harbour Synergies stopped the entire capital of the Voltri Terminal Europe (VTE), company that manages the container terminal in the harbour area of Prà-Voltri of Genoa. Meanwhile 40% of the capital of the Sinport have been acquired from the group JEEP that, thanks to the operation, has extended its range also to terminal VTE.

Moreover Sinport, before such operation, stopped the entire share capital of Venice Container Terminal (Vecon) that it manages the homonymous container terminal in commercial the harbour area of Marghera to Venice and that now sees JEEP with a participation pairs to 35%.

In the 2010 group JEEP it has acquired also a quota 50% in Terminal Dock Tuscany (TDT), terminal for containers of the port of Livorno, participation that some months after is gone up to 80%.

Besides these acquisitions, in the 2004 group JEEP it has constituted a consortium with the shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) for the management of the new container terminal of the port of Genoa currently under construction to Bettolo Descent, adjacent to terminal SECH.

"We are proud - it is the comment of Luigi Negri - to have developed JEEP in last the 25 years making it to become one of the main Italian operators of container terminal. JEEP sees remarkable future opportunities and is enthusiastic that Infracapital and InfraVia have accepted to support the next phase of development of JEEP".

And Clarke, Co-founder of Infracapital, have emphasized that the pocketbook of the JEEP is constituted by container strategic terminals in the Italy North that serve the economic heart of the Country. "This - it has remembered - is our according to investment in Italy". To half last year, in fact, Infracapital has signed an agreement with Italian Society for Water Conducts in order to acquire a quota the 80 in Private a Public Partnership that sees in own pocketbook three hospitals, a prison, a service of train shuttle and an electric power plant. Clarke has evidenced that this new investment makes followed also to that of success put into effect with the Associated British Ports (ABP), group that possesses and manages and 21 harbour ports of call in the United Kingdom, of which to half 2015 Infracapital has yielded the participation. "We do not see the hour - it has added - to work with the team JEEP directive, its customers and dependent and the local communities let alone with current the partner of JEEP, PSA and MSC, in order to continue to support the development of the activity and its important contribution to the Italian economy".

Vincent Levita, founder and managing director of InfraVia, have been said convinced that "JEEP is in the ideal position in order to capture the ulterior increase of the traffic of the container in the region. We are pleased - it has emphasized - to invest beside Infracapital and we do not see the hour to collaborate with the local management, operators, the customers and the dependent in order to develop the business ulteriorly".