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Toninelli announces that Contship has decided to yield the entire control of the container terminal of Gioia Tauro to MSC
The minister has specified that the procedure of lapsing of concessionaire's right will be suspended for 30 days
March 14, 2019
The terminalista society Contship Italy has decided to yield 50% of the CSM Italy-Gate, to title of the entire capital of the Medcenter company Container Terminal (MCT) that it manages the container terminal of the port of Gioia Tauro, to the other associate, the shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), that will stop therefore the entire control of the calabrian terminalista society, and as a result of such decision the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports has suspended the procedure of forfeiture of the contract with which MCT it manages the terminal of Gioia Tauro.
Minister Danilo Toninelli has announced explaining that the ministry has received "the precise engagements that we attended by the terminalista Contship. The society - it has specified Toninelli - has started necessary implementations on the negotiation for the cession to the group of Gianluigi Aponte of the quotas, 50%, in CSM Italy-Gate Spa, the society that in its turn controls 100% of MCT. We have decided, therefore, to suspend for 30 days the procedure of forfeiture of the concessorio relationship against three it only sets in action precise undertaken from Contship: the start of the interlocuzione with the counterpart for the cession; the nomination of a law firm in assistance and a advisor financial for the appraisal of the assets; the convocation of a Board of Directors at the beginning of the next week in order to confer full loads bargaining powers to a member of the Board. Thanks to these three binding engagements are only released the suspension of the terms for the mass in blackberry, valid moreover on condition to assure however the full operativity of the terminal and the safeguard of the occupational levels".
"We hold high the attention - it has concluded the minister - waiting for carrying out that, therefore, it would have to arrive shortly and that, we wish, will carry to the ready one I throw again of one of the more important ports of Italy".
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