The Dutch Leonidsport B.V., a company created last 16 Amsterdam-based company, submitted an offer for acquire 2,116,800 shares of the Port Authority of Thessaloniki, shares representing 21.0% of the entire capital of the Greek Port Authority. The capital of Leonidsport is almost entirely owned by the family Louis-Dreyfus, including Russia's Margarita Olegovna Louis-Dreyfus who is president of the Louis Dreyfus group mainly active in the processing and marketing of agricultural products and which also operates in the transport sector with a fleet of about 200 ocean-going vessels including bulk carriers, tankers and container ships and with a fleet of river ships and trucks. 0.3% of Leonidsport's capital is held by Igor Levin, a Ukrainian residing in the United States.

The price offered by the Dutch company is € 27.00 for each Port Authority share, for a total of over 57 million euros, compared to an average price of the shares of the last six months of the shares on the Athens Stock Exchange of 21.33 euros.

Currently 67.0% of the capital of Thessaloniki Port Authority is owned by the South Europe Gateway Thessaloniki (SEGT), a consortium set up by the investment company Deutsche Invest Equity Partners and the Cypriot Belterra Investments Ltd. of Nicosia as well as the company Terminal Link terminal operator of the French shipping group CMA CGM which completed the acquisition of control of the Authority Greek port at the beginning of 2018 ( of 22 December 2017).