“ We informed potential investors change the terms of the tender ,” said the source told AFP.
As already suggested the government of radical left for several weeks, the percentage of public shares offered for sale in the company that controls the largest port of the country, south of Athens, passes to just over the majority, against 67% in the call for tenders launched in April 2014 by the right-Socialist coalition in power until January.
The source said three companies are interested in the privatization tender: Chinese conglomerate Cosco, the operator of container terminals Dutch APM Terminals, a subsidiary of Danish giant Maersk and the group based in the Philippines International Container Terminal Services.
They have until September to submit their bids, will we told AFP.
The government of Alexis Tsipras, in power for three months, wants to be very vigilant on the sale of public assets described as “ selling off ” capital of the State but is under pressure from creditors of the country, EU and IMF to complete anticipated sales.
In the wake of coming to power, he announced the suspension of Piraeus privatization procedure before announcing seek a new formula preserving the interests of the public authorities and employees.
The spokesman Gabriel Sakellaridis government reiterated on Thursday that the issue of privatization was part of the “ package ” measures currently under discussion with creditors of the EU countries and IMF for the release of a tranche of loans of 7.2 billion euros.
Mr. Sakellaridis acknowledged that on the subject of Piraeus, there had been “ license ” the Greek government.
The Chinese conglomerate Cosco dealer is already two terminals of the port of Piraeus. The port society (PLO), whose shares are offered for sale, manages other terminal cargo and passenger traffic. The Chinese government had moved the apparent about-face of the Greeks.
Greece has never met the objectives set by the privatization program demanded by creditors to participate in the repayment of 240 billion euros in loans allocated to the country since 2010.
The initial goal to raise 50 billion euros by 2016 had been reduced under previous governments less than 10 billion euros.
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