Grimaldi News 45

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Contents
3 Minoan Lines joins
the Grimaldi family
4 Nine new MoS launched
6 EuroAegean brings the US
to Lebanon via Hamburg
Grimaldi Agencies Maroc
8 EIB in €200m ‘Grimaldi
Ro/Ro’ credit line
9 Grande Angola
deployed on service
11 New terminal area
in Senegal
Central Express Service
improvements
12 Focus on Argentina
South America Line in
Dakar 2009 debut
13 Helsinki new port is
fully operational
14 News
15 Agent List & Schedules
G r imaldi
NE WS
Direttore Responsabile
Editor
Saverio Barbati
Progetto grafico
Graphic design
Marco Di Lorenzo
Pubblicazione trimestrale
Quarterly publication
Reg. Trib. Napoli n. 5150 del 26/9/2000
Stampa / Print: ROSSI srl - Nola (Napoli)
GRIMALDI GROUP
Via Marchese Campodisola, 13
GNEWS 80133 NAPOLI (Italy)
Grimaldi News can be seen on
line on www.grimaldi.napoli.it
On November 26, Grimaldi
Compagnia di Navigazione
S.p.A., the Group’s
parent company successfully completed
the public offer of purchase
on the shares of Minoan Lines, the
Athens-listed ferry operator. The offer
valued each share at €5.29 and
the entire company at €375,198,540.
On its closure Grimaldi controlled
84.72% of Minoan Lines, up from the
33.36% held on October 3, when the
offer was launched. The shareholding
rose to 84.96% by the end of December
2008 as the Group purchased
more shares on the market.
Minoan Lines is based in Heraklion
(Crete), it operates a fleet of six
modern Cruise Ferry vessels on the
routes linking the Greek mainland
and Crete, as well as between Italy
and Greece. In 2007, Minoan Lines
transported 1.57 million passengers,
283,000 cars and 153,000 trailers. In
the first nine months of 2008, the company
transported 1.41 million passengers,
260,000 cars and 130,000
trucks.
On completion of the public offer, Mr.
Emanuele Grimaldi, the joint Manag-
Heraklion
ing Director of the Grimaldi Group
and President of Minoan Lines commented:
“We are particularly pleased
and proud of having gained control of
Minoan Lines, one of the most important
Greek ferry operators. This move
is part of our industrial strategy to
build a solid Pan-European alliance of
major brands in the transport by sea of
passengers and freight. In addition to
Grimaldi Lines and Minoan Lines, our
powerful set of brands includes Finn-