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CMA CGM will buy the Finnish company of navigation and Containerships logistics
The transaction will include the quotas 25% in the Fine-Link societies Terminal and Depot Container
June 20, 2018
Company Finnish of navigation and of logistics Containerships, than work services of transport containerized door-to-door in Sea of North, in Baltic Sea and in the Mediterranean, region this last one in which is active with line services that they connect the Spanish port of Barcelona with main the port of the Africa North, Close East and Turkey, will be acquired from the French shipowning group CMA CGM.
The transalpine shipowning group has signed an agreement with the Finnish Container Finances Ltd Oy based on which the society of Helsinki will yield to the French group the Containerships let alone own participation of 25% in the harbour society Fine-Link Terminal (MLT) and in the Holding CD, that it possesses the Depot Container, society that work inland the terminal Yanino Logistics Park near Saint Petersburg and other asset, two society of which the Global Cypriot Ports Investments it stops 75% of the capital.
According to the forecasts, the agreement will be carried to term over 3-6 months after the approval of the competent authorities.
Currently Containerships has a fleet of 13 portacontainer, all taken rental, of which nine of the ability comprised between 800 and 970 teu employees in Europe North and four of the ability to 620-1.100 teu used in the Mediterranean. To these between the next August and January 2019 they will join (with the formula salt and leaseback) other four portacontainer of the ability to 1.400 teu with fed propulsion to which liquified natural gas. Moreover the company has a fleet of constituted container gives beyond 15 thousand property containers and of a fleet of formed truck they give about 150 means.
In the 2017 Containerships it has recorded a turnover of 226,7 million euros and the fleet has transported containerized cargo volumes pairs almost 300 thousand teu, of which 253,659 teu with the services in the Baltic Sea/Sea of the North and 43,656 teu on the routes in the Mediterranean, with increases respective of +14.0% and +31.5% on the 222,535 teu and 33,204 teu transported in the year precedence.
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Company Finnish of navigation and of logistics Containerships, than work services of transport containerized door-to-door in Sea of North, in Baltic Sea and in the Mediterranean, region this last one in which is active with line services that they connect the Spanish port of Barcelona with main the port of the Africa North, Close East and Turkey, will be acquired from the French shipowning group CMA CGM.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
