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Comment / Hamburg – the Petri dish for Schenker?

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How steep a bump in the road is the expected delay in the Hamburg parliament vote that will give final clearance for MSC to acquire a 49.9% stake in HHLA?

Let’s toss the coin.

By the way

In a lot of the deal’s media coverage, the transaction is referred to simply as MSC’s takeover of HHLA.

And this obscures both the nature and the motivation of this strategic M&A for the seller and the new investor.

In a nutshell, the reason why Hamburg decided to ...

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