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China Merges Shipping Firms in Reform Push

Jan 04, 2016

Chinese shipping subsidiaries will realign their businesses in response to the merger between China Ocean Shipping (Group), known as Cosco Group, and China Shipping Group, reports Nikkei. Sinotrans & CSC Holdings Co., the nation's third largest shipping company…

Green Signal for Sinotrans-China Merchants Merger

Dec 30, 2015

China's cabinet on Tuesday (Dec 29) approved a deal that fuses two of the country's biggest state-owned transport and logistics firms, reports Reuters. China's cabinet has approved China Merchants Group's acquisition of Sinotrans & CSC Holdings Co…

China Shipping Ports Acquires 20% Stake at Busan Terminal

Dec 24, 2015

China Shipping Ports Development, the port unit of China Shipping Group, has agreed to acquire a 20% stake in the loss-making Korea Express Busan Container Terminal (KBCT) from parent CJ Korea Express (CJ Korex). KBCT manages the container terminal in the port of Busan Shinsundae…

Peel Ports Buys Great Yarmouth

Dec 24, 2015

Peel Ports Group has completed the acquisition of Great Yarmouth Port Company Limited (GYPC) from International Port Holdings for an undisclosed sum.  GYPC is well established as the leading UK port servicing the UK sector of the Southern…

Boskalis, KOTUG Joint Venture Formalized

Dec 23, 2015

KOTUG and Boskalis reach agreement to merge European harbor towage operationsRoyal Boskalis Westminster N.V. and KOTUG International B.V. have reached a formal agreement to merge their European harbor towage operations following on a Memorandum…

CMA CGM Buys Additional Shares In NOL from Open Market

Dec 23, 2015

French carrier CMA CGM, which has announced its bid to acquire Neptune Orient Lines for S$3.4bn ($2.4bn) in cash, is slowly building a stake in Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) for less than the price per share it has offered in a planned takeover deal…

Kongsberg Maritime Acquires SMSC

Dec 22, 2015

Kongsberg Maritime has signed a contract to buy the Trondheim-based ship simulation and consultancy company, Ship Modelling & Simulation Centre AS (SMSC). The acquisition is expected to be completed January 2016. “More sophisticated vessel…

DP World, Prince Rupert Port Ink Feasibility Study Deal

Dec 15, 2015

DP World and the Prince Rupert Port Authority have announced an agreement to study further expansion of the Fairview Container Terminal in Prince Rupert.  The agreement was signed by DP World Canada Group General Manager, Maksim Mihic, and Prince Rupert Port Authority President & CEO…

China Shipping Merger Erases $900 mln in Market Value

Dec 14, 2015

Shares of Cosco Group and China Shipping have taken a hammering on the stock markets  as two major companies lost about $900 million in total market value after the government proposed combining its two key ocean liner groups, reports Bloomberg…

CMA CGM Buys NOL Shares from Open Market, Below Par

Dec 14, 2015

CMA CGM SA has bought about 3.68 million shares of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) on the open market at S$1.22 per share. The shares purchased make up 0.14 per cent of NOL's issued share capital, reports Straits Times. The purchase…

G6 Alliance to Maintain Service Structure through 2016

Dec 11, 2015

Container shippers of the G6 alliance intend to maintain current service structure and operate as aligned through 2016, following news of CMA-CGM’s potential takeover of Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) announced earlier this week.Singapore-based NOL…

Cosco, China Shipping Merger Gets Green Signal from Beijing

Dec 11, 2015

China State Council has given the go-ahead for country's two largest shipping conglomerates to merge, continuing a trend in the industry to trim down state-owned enterprises, reports Caixin Media. The China Ocean Shipping Co. (COSCO Group) and China Shipping Group Co…

CMA CGM Vice-Chairman on NOL Takeover

Dec 11, 2015

CMA CGM vice-chairman Rodolphe Saade said that his company was the first ones to initiate the discussions with NOL and Temasek and it made sense to them, that is why they carried on with the discussions, according to a report in The Straits Times…

ZF Acquires Bosch Rexroth Industrial Gears Arm

Dec 08, 2015

ZF acquires industrial gears and wind turbine gearbox segment from Bosch Rexroth Following the go-ahead from antitrust authorities, on December 1, 2015 ZF has officially taken over the industrial gears and wind turbine gearbox business from Bosch Rexroth AG…

Temasek to Sell Entire NOL Stake for $1.61 Billion

Dec 08, 2015

Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings has agreed to sell its entire 67 percent stake in Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) to France’s CMA CGM, the world’s third-largest container shipper. CMA CGM will pay S$1.30 a share in cash for the 2…

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