On the occasion of today's launch of SAS Shipping's offer Agencies Services, a company of the shipowners' group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), for the acquisition of the entire capital of Norway's Gram Car Carriers (GCC), operation agreed with the Board of Directors of the latter company and announced last month ( of 24 April 2024), the Board of the Norwegian company presented A statement on the offer by the investment bank Norwegian ABG Sundal Collier as an expert independent.

In its assessment of the proposal, ABG Sundal Collier Remember that the main objective of the offer is to expand the MSC Group's presence in the transport market of passenger cars, a sector in which the shipowning group Switzerland is already present with two car carriers. The Norwegian bank specifies that it intends to of the bidder is to preserve Gram's business Car Carriers, keeping this company name and the current organisation of the company, with no intention of making any changes to the company's workforce.

ABG Sundal Collier concludes that the price offered, equal to 263.69 Norwegian kroner in cash for each share of the GCC, is deemed to be fair from a financial point of view for shareholders of Gram Car Carriers.