The Greek shipowner Marios Iliopoulos, owner of the company Seajets, has relaunched its offer for the acquisition of Anek Lines, proposal that in recent days the company of Greek navigation had rejected it considering it an alternative not valid to the merger of Anek with compatriot Attica, demonstrating Among other things, amazement at the presentation of the offer despite the merger operation is already underway ( of 27 June 2023).

In a letter sent today to Piraeus Bank, which representing Anek's creditors, Iliopoulos dismissed the Anek's main reasons for rejecting the tender, start from the surprise expressed because the proposal is was advanced despite the merger with Attica being already in the public domain. In the letter Iliopoulos highlights whereas this operation is not lawful as long as it is not receives approval from the European Commission and stresses that it would be in the public domain that the proposal for a transaction with Attica, based on Management opinion General for competition of the EU Commission, would raise significant competition problems. "Therefore - he wrote Iliopoulos - the statement that our proposal "presents a significantly increased risk of implementation" is approximate and baseless, and in any event is rejected because it is completely unfounded'.

Approximately the figure of EUR 80 million for the reimbursement of Anek's creditors under the merger agreement with Attica ( of 21 September 2022), Iliopoulos highlighted that its offer provided for a reimbursement of 82 million euros, a figure that in the Letter specified that it had decided to increase by offering 83 million of which 55 million through a loan guaranteed by first-degree mortgage on ships in the fleet, the value of which commercial - it has highlighted - is of 138 million euros, and the remaining 28 million from own resources.