Nordic Capital acquires Unifeeder from Montagu Private Equity
Leading feeder and short sea operator Unifeeder handled almost two million container units in 2012 and is now changing the ownership
Nordic Capital Fund VIII (“Nordic Capital”) has reached an agreement to acquire the leading Danish logistics company Unifeeder from Montagu Private Equity. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Unifeeder, headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark, is a market leader with Northern Europe’s largest feeder and short sea network for container transportation, serving the world’s container hubs and the Intra-Europe container freight of large industrial companies. In 2012, Unifeeder’s network handled almost two million container units and made over 8,000 calls in more than 40 ports.
Unifeeder benefits from increasing global trade volumes which are expected to continue to outpace global GDP growth. This trend, coupled with cost-effectiveness and high quality service, has primed the company for continued organic and acquisitive growth. Furthermore, the use of Intra-Europe short sea container shipping is expected to increase due to rising costs of road transport, EU policy initiatives and environmental concerns. Over the past six years, Unifeeder has expanded into new markets such as the UK and Western Mediterranean, as well as invested to enhance its networks, logistical operations and management structures.
Unifeeder, established in 1977, is one of Europe’s leading feeder and short sea operators transporting containers from the large European container hubs in Belgium, England, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain to more than 40 regional ports across the UK, the Nordic Region, the Baltic States, Russia and Northern Africa. These operations are complemented by its fast growing door-to-door multimodal container transport business. Unifeeder has local offices in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Russia. In addition, the company has a presence through agents in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Spain, Tunisia and Algeria.
Quelle: LogEastics
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