APM Terminals buys the Reefer Terminal of Savona Vado Ligure



Waiting for to manage the new container terminal of Vado Ligure (Savona), whose beginning of the operativity is previewed in January 2018, terminalista society Dutch APM Terminals of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk, world leader in the field of the marine transport of the container, has realized an important operation in the savonese port carrying to term today the acquisition of the entire capital of Reefer Terminal, company specialized in handling of goods cooled, that it is yielded by the GF Group of the Orsero group.

Reefer Terminal is the greatest terminal refrigerator of the Mediterranean with 600.000 pallets enlivened annually and a traffic of container pairs to 275.000 teu. The landing place has 465 linear meters of dock with backdrop of the depth of -14,5 meters and 510 connections for containers refrigerator.

Specifying that Reefer Terminal will continue to operate as highly specialistic terminal in the disembarkation and storage of ortofrutta fresh, APM Terminals has explained to have bought the company with the objective to construct a modern one and completes logistic chain that connects the markets of northern Italy, southern France, Switzerland and Bavaria. Moreover Reefer Terminal is adjacent to the yard for the multipurpose construction of the new platform of Vado Ligure that, with its 800,000 teu of annual ability and beyond -17 meters of depth in order to serve the ships of last generation, will accommodate the container terminal of the Dutch society.

APM Terminals has evidenced moreover that the new container terminal of Vado Ligure will be the only port in able Italy to manage the Large Hooligan Container Ship (ULCS) of the ability to beyond 18.000 teu.

"Integration of Reefer Terminal with our seed-automated terminal - it has found the managing director of APM Terminals Vado Ligure, Carlo Merli - will improve the logistic offer to the companies and the lines of navigation that scale from Liguria coast as income in order to serve northern Italy and, because not, also in order to go oltralpe. We are constructing - it has emphasized Merlons - the Italian port of the future: ideal access to producers and consumers in the Italy north. We will have the best one produced and harbour system on the market, in a position to serving efficiently portacontainer, several frigorifere ships, ro-ro and goods".

Moreover the Dutch company has remembered that Reefer Terminal has four railroads that will be connected to the railway terminal (in project) close of the terminal containers of APM Terminals, an access directed to the internal destinations with an intermodal service to low environmental impact and competitive cost.

From part its Raffaella Orsero, president of GF Group, has explained that "this cession is an ulterior step towards the rifocalizzazione on our historical business of import and distribution of ortofrutta. We will continue however - it has specified - to being customers of Reefer Terminal with our service weekly magazine from Central America, acts with four frigorifere ships of property. We are many contents - it has I add Orsero - to pass the testimony to an operator of the importance of APM Terminals that sure will continue to supply a highest level of professionality guaranteeing ulterior development".

While, always today, the Orsero group has formalized another cession. Draft of the quotas the society I go Intermodal Operator (VIO) prisoners from the GF Portem Srl, society of property of GF Group, that they are sold to the Harbour Authority of Savona that, as deliberated the slid spring from the Harbour Committee in the within of the plan of rationalization of the social participation of the agency ( on 1° April 2015), it increases so own social participation from 8% to 72%. The Harbour Authority, already shareholder from 2009 of VIO Spa, has acquired 3,7 million actions investing 23 million euros. Remaining sets in action is of Freeway of the Spa Flowers (1,6 million sets in action), that it remains to 28% of the capital.

The savonese harbour authority has remembered that the definitive action, undersigned in front of notary public from president Gian Luigi Miazza and for the GF Portem Srl from president Raffaella Orsero, has arrived to the begun term of along iter administrative in 2014, at the moment of offered for sale of the entire parcel of shares pairs to 64% is under responsibility of the group of Albenga GF of the Orsero family.

The Harbour Authority has remembered moreover that VIO is a interporto classified "Core" from the European Union and inserted in the corridors IT TRY and that covers a fundamental role in the completion of the project for the multipurpose realization of the platform in the harbour basin of Vado Ligure with a public-private investment pairs to 450 million euros, of which 150 at the expense of the controlled one of Maersk, APM Italy. The agency has emphasized that, once entered in exercise, the platform will reach traffic volumes such to carry the port of Savona between those including in the Core node and that the presence of the Interporto di Vado in the adjacent areas will then allow to approach destined the deep part of EU with the completion of the net TRIES.

"The feasibility of the acquisition - the president of the harbour agency Miazza has emphasized - is gushed once ascertained state of health of society VIO and the percorribilità of the initiative under all the profiles, from that legal, patrimonial, financial. The Harbour Authority of Savona has the resources in order to carry to term an operation that will be the completion of necessary infrastructures to the intermodal logistic platform under construction and that it is previewed is realized within the end of 2017".

The Harbour Authority has evidenced that VIO, "that it has as primary object the production of relative services to the intermodal transport and to the logistics, it has also the areas that, in compliance with plannings already defined, will be destined to the realization of a suit and rational railway terminal, that totally it will be renewed regarding the current situation through the widening and the enrichment of the equipments of structural and instrumental character and on which potentially assumes transits until 40% of containers that will arrive on the new platform, and, also in other operating terminals".

"They are these perspectives of development with the obvious ones and directed repercussions under the twofold productive and occupational profile - Miazza has explained - than have carried to us to acquire the share quotas VIO. I consider indispensable also that it is the Harbour Authority to exercise an activity of supervision in the logistic field and intermodal legacy to the future activity of the platform of I go and to the priority participations that must privilege the most sustainable railway modality for the transfer of the goods from the dock to the reference markets. This will be own one of the points on which the efforts of the agency will be concentrated. With the increase of the quotas in VIO a modern and rational railway terminal will be able to be realized on the areas served from the already existing railroads, that it will be to service of all the port of Vado Ligure".

The Harbour Authority has observed that the operation could also "be revealed attractive of new investments and new interested subjects to enter in the social compages, attracted as well as from the opportunities of development of the entire harbour logistic system from the governace publishes represented from the Harbour Authority".

"Considered the complexity of the operation - moreover Miazza has rimarcato replying to the perplexities manifested from the participation of the agency in the interportuale society - the Harbour Authority has demanded the opinion of the ministry of the Economy and Finances beyond that of reference of the Transports. Received the authorization on the acquisition and having opportunely deliberated the acquisition by the Harbour Committee, strong also of the legal opinion of a famous jurist that has not found exceptions to the purchase also to light of the most recent contained discipline in the law of stability 2015, it is proceeded to carry to term the operation that will give new course to the harbour development within a pair of years".