After having recently signed an agreement for the sale of own port and logistics activities to the German Hapag-Lloyd
( of
22 October 2022), the Chilean SAAM has further strengthened the own core business of towing services by buying the entire fleet of 21 tugs of the Brazilian Starnav Serviços Marítimos, including two in the final stages of their construction. The transaction is valued at $198 million. With the acquisition, SAAM will have in 19 Brazilian ports of a fleet of 69 tugs.