{"id":31539,"date":"2022-10-03T14:02:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T11:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/lomar-completes-160m-acquisition-of-carl-buttner\/31539\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T14:02:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T11:02:13","slug":"lomar-completes-160m-acquisition-of-carl-buttner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/lomar-completes-160m-acquisition-of-carl-buttner\/31539\/","title":{"rendered":"Lomar completes $160m acquisition of Carl B\u00fcttner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>Lomar Shipping, a maritime subsidiary of Libra Group, has acquired Bremen-based Carl B\u00fcttner Holding, paying $160m to take over the 166-year-old company and its fleet of six chemical tankers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to see the acquisition of Carl B\u00fcttner successfully completed and look forward to welcoming our new colleagues and their vast tanker management expertise as Lomar enhances its presence in the sector,\u201d said Nicholas Georgiou, CEO of Lomar Shipping.<\/p>\n<p>George Logothetis, executive chairman of Libra Group, said, \u201cThis deal reflects the ethos and family values shared across our business group. We are pleased that as the Carl B\u00fcttner group joins Lomar, a proven maritime leader, it will also benefit from the strength of Libra Group\u2019s network around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Logothetis went on to suggest that a raft of other announcements would be coming from Lomar and Libra in the coming months. <\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>Also announced today, long-time Carl B\u00fcttner managing director Thorsten Mackenthun has decided to retire following the acquisition after 42 years in the shipping business.<\/p>\n<p>Lomar\u2019s diversified mixed-sector fleet of approximately 50 vessels is best known for its containership exposure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n\t    <!-- \/91333190\/SPLASH247_*_Splash247_Article_*_Strip_Slot_*_2 --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\">\n<script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta post-bottom-tags post-tags-modern\">\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta-title\"><span class=\"tie-icon-tags\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Tags<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/germany\/\" rel=\"tag\">Germany<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/united-kingdom\/\" rel=\"tag\">United Kingdom<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lomar Shipping, a maritime subsidiary of Libra Group, has acquired Bremen-based Carl B\u00fcttner Holding, paying $160m to take over the 166-year-old company and its fleet of six chemical tankers. \u201cWe are pleased to see the acquisition of Carl B\u00fcttner successfully completed and look forward to welcoming our new colleagues and their vast tanker management expertise &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tanker-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31539","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=31539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/31540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}