A.P. Møller Holding A/S, the company of investments of the Mærsk family that controls the group Danish shipowner A.P. Møller-Mærsk, of which A.P. Møller Holding owns 41.51% of the share capital, has presented through the wholly-owned subsidiary APMH Invest A/S (APMHI) an offer to acquire the entire capital shareholding of Svitzer, a company that operates mainly in the towing services sector in ports and offshore industry with a fleet that as of December 31 was made up of 446 vehicles Naval.

AMPHI currently already holds 47.0% of the share capital Svitzer shareholder of which he is the main shareholder. The Price offered is DKK 285 per share of Svitzer, which assigns to the entire share capital of the company worth around 9.0 billion Danish kroner (1.2 billion billion euros). The independent directors of Svitzer unanimously resolved to recommend to shareholders acceptance of the offer. La A.P. Møller og Hustru Chastine McKinney Møllers Familiefond, a foundation that is was established in 1953 by the shipowner A.P. Møller and which owns 9.83% of the share capital of A.P. Møller-Mærsk and 9.9% of the share capital of Svitzer, has subscribed to a binding agreement of acceptance of the offer.

A.P. Møller Holding has announced that if, upon completion of the AMPHI will hold more than 90% of the share capital of the offering. and voting rights of Svitzer will initiate the procedure for the acquisition of the remaining share as provided by the Danish Companies Act. In addition, if AMPHI obtains the number of actions necessary to implement a delisting, will be filed an application to remove Svitzer from the list of Nasdaq Copenhagen stock market. AMPHI expects that the offer will be completed by 2 May next or around that date.