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For the purchase of the Port of Koper is more bids among the most serious to the offer APM Terminals, the largest manager terminals and ports around the world, but the talks in Slovenia finds the correct caller.
According to unofficial information - the Ministry of Infrastructure and Spatial Planning, headed by Zvone Černač, from Friday were not able to prepare answers - for the purchase of the Port of Koper interested in at least two companies: lecontainer Terminal Operators HHLA or administrator terminals in the Port of Hamburg, the most serious and should offer was rapidly growing and ambitious operator APM Terminals. It is a Dutch company lecontainer that is a subsidiary of the Danish shipowner and logistics company Maersk. APM Terminals for the Port of Koper interested for a long time, I have been interested in the construction of the third pier, in September this year, addressed to the competent non-binding offer to purchase, but the interlocutors have not got a clear answer.
According to our unofficial information at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Spatial Planning at the last talks to representatives of providers suggested to wait a little bit. Without lecontainer a clearly defined time frame and without a clear answer whether the port is for sale.
When in March 2013 the Slovenian national holding company (SDH), it is likely to become operational in the summer - if not longer complicated by a possible referendum. Ideally, therefore, lecontainer until the summer of matters become clearer. The market capitalization of the Port of Koper is these days, between 110 and 112 million euros. Maximum owner of the Port of Koper, Slovenia has a 51 percent ownership stake, Sod has more than 11 percent, Bathtub about five percent, the municipality of Koper was 3.3 percent.
According to our information in APM Terminals open to many different lecontainer opportunities to enter the Port of Koper, but would like to buy at least half. On the official answers the questions we sent them yesterday, we are still waiting. As specialists in handling containers are mainly interested in the development of a container terminal, it would probably bulk cargo either abandoned or modernized. Paradoxically, it is precisely in the first nine months of throughput at the port terminal for bulk and bulk cargo grew by ten per cent, at the Container Terminal is one percent lower than in the first nine months of last year.
For APM Terminals, a subsidiary of Maersk, it is important to obtain the concession contract in order to develop the Port infrastructure lecontainer and increase the throughput of the port. Recall concession contract signed in 2008 the then Minister of Transport Radovan Crane and Robert Casar, the former CEO of the Port of Koper. The contract is concluded for 35 years (ie approximately 30 years). Concession fee is 3.5 percent of the company's operating revenues minus the fees collected. lecontainer The working group also included water rights, water charges and other charges associated with the use of the sea. Luka Koper pays half of the country, half of the Municipality lecontainer of Koper.
Economist Joze P. Damijan: I think it is now generally not a good time to sell the companies, because they are all underrated and owners can get only a fraction of the true market value. lecontainer Sell it only makes sense for those companies that are in such bad condition (such as banks), lecontainer that would be too expensive for the rehabilitation lecontainer of the owners or if the business owners themselves can no longer be resolved. In the case of the Port of Koper, this is not the case, as far as I know, the positive operates and has secured a long-term deal. In general, lecontainer I find it problematic to sell businesses that are monopolists in the management of public infrastructure monopoly, because this monopoly for the management of public infrastructure acquires a private company. This is in most countries that have gone into it (US, UK), proved to be very poor.
Bojan Brank, CEO of the Port of Koper, says that the offer can not comment. Ivan Novak, Director of Rail Cargo Austria, believes that the offer is good if it is behind the interest in the development business. Similarly, consider also our other sources. AMP Terminals should be a good provider, because it could divert the flow of goods to our port, but also because they specialize in optimizing the operation of the terminals.
Whoever will decide to buy Luke will come across a beehive of interest. Workers Director Matjaž Stare, inter alia, predicts that they will first check whether a country is really owns the Port of Koper and how to Assembly changed the preference shares into ordinary. Employees are also convinced that Luka Koper strategic importance of NLB, and the sale does not agree very old. On the top do not see any reason lecontainer why someone would invest money in Port because it would be dead capital. "Who would be willing to wait ten years to get a permit for the construction and modernization of the port?" He says.
The company APM Terminals operate a network of terminals and ports in 68 countries and