MILAN, May 3 (Class Editori) -- Onorato Armatori and the Msc Group have found the buyers of the new ferries ordered a year ago in China at the Guangzhou Shipyard International. As shown by the last financial statements of Moby, after the first agreements with the shipyard and the brokerage company China Shipbuilding Trading signed in December 2017 and in 2018, Onorato Armatori concluded an agreement with a foreign counterparty for the simultaneous sale and charter back of the first two ships under construction with deliveries scheduled for 2021 and 2022.
According to what was reported to MF Shipping & Logistics, apparently the same operation has been completed by the Msc Group for regarding its new units being delivered in 2020 and 2021. It came out that the financial counterparty with which these agreements were concluded is ICBC Leasing.
As for the two groups controlled by Vincenzo Onorato and Gianluigi Aponte, the port authority of Livorno formalized the sale of 66% of the terminal company Porto Livorno 2000 by Livorno Terminal, a company recently established by Sinergest, LTM, Moby and Marinvest. Moby and Msc offered 10.74 million euros for the purchase of the majority shares of the company that manages the cruise and ferry traffic in the port and have committed to invest 91 million euros for the construction of new infrastructures over the next 30 years.
(Source:Class Editori)
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