The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) group has acquired the 51% of the capital of TIS, a Ukrainian terminal operator company that operates a container terminal in the port of Pivdennyi (Odessa). The last March, the Middle Eastern terminal group DP World had sold this share that he had bought on June 5, 2020 with a investment of 93.7 million dollars. Ukrainian media have made I note that now 51% of TIS has been sold to Diego and Alexa Aponte, who are the sons of the founder of the MSC shipping group Gianluigi Aponte and who will each indirectly hold 25.5% of the TIS. Part of the remaining 49% of the capital will remain in Ukrainian families Stavnitser and Kutateladze, in particular Yegor Grebennikov (11.72%), Andrey Stavnitser (9.72%) and Oleg Kutateladze (9.19%).

TIS is the largest port operator in Ukraine in in terms of volume of goods handled. The company operates six port terminals specialise in the port of Pivdennyi and has a own fleet of tugboats. The company's container terminal it has a quay of 600 linear meters with a depth of depth of -15 meters and an annual traffic capacity of 400 thousand TEUs.