{"id":31456,"date":"2022-09-22T17:47:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/at-least-two-investors-to-submit-binding-bids-for-alexandroupolis-port\/31456\/"},"modified":"2022-09-22T17:47:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:47:09","slug":"at-least-two-investors-to-submit-binding-bids-for-alexandroupolis-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/at-least-two-investors-to-submit-binding-bids-for-alexandroupolis-port\/31456\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least Two Investors to Submit Binding Bids for Alexandroupolis Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>At least two investors are expected to submit binding bids on Thursday for a majority stake in Greece&#8217;s northern port of Alexandroupolis, sources close to the process told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Near the borders with Bulgaria and Turkey, and with rail links and a floating gas regasification unit in the pipeline, Alexandroupolis has potential as a transport and energy hub for central Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Four investors were shortlisted last year for a 67% stake in the port: Quintana Infrastructure and Development; a Cameron S.A-Goldair Cargo and Bollore Africa Logistics consortium; the port of Thessaloniki; and the International Port Investments Alexandroupolis joint venture comprising Black Summit Financial Group, Euroports, EFA Group and GEK Terna.<\/p>\n<p>One source told Reuters that at least two investors were expected to submit bids before the deadline expires on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>International Port Investments Alexandroupolis still has a strong interest in the port, a source from the joint venture told Reuters on Thursday. Quintana will submit a binding bid on Thursday, a third source with knowledge of the matter said.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Reuters &#8211; Reporting by Angeliki Koutantou, Karolina TagarisEditing by Mark Potter)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least two investors are expected to submit binding bids on Thursday for a majority stake in Greece&#8217;s northern port of Alexandroupolis, sources close to the process told Reuters. Near the borders with Bulgaria and Turkey, and with rail links and a floating gas regasification unit in the pipeline, Alexandroupolis has potential as a transport &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/31457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}