TAIPED

Hello, now we knew it, we wrote about it, but who believed us? Stefanos is still here, but it’s like he’s not here at all; poor guy got swallowed up by vested interests. Even the last “pillars” of Democracy—Liagas and Kainourgiou, who supported him—have started to…waver, kind of erased him.

Matenisa Trading has won the tender for the utilization of the Agia Triada coast and camping in the Municipality of Thermaikos in Thessaloniki, state asset utilization fund TAIPED announced on Thursday.

Strong investment interest has been officially expressed for the majority stake in Lavrio Port Authority.

Eight investment schemes had tabled a bid at the TAIPED-run tender by Thursday's deadline.

After being evaluated, some or all of them will be short-listed for the submission of binding financial offers.

The agreement for the concession of Egnatia Odos between the Greek state and the Asset Development Fund (TAIPED), as well as the company Nea Egnatia Odos and the original shareholders, GEK Terna and Egis Projects was signed on Friday, according to TAIPED. 

The improved offer by the only candidate for the purchase of the state's 623,000-square meter property in the Ververonta area near Porto Heli in the Peloponnese was also judged to be too low.

This was the decision by the TAIPED board, putting an end to the second attempt in the last decade to utilize the property, advertised as even having the potential to develop a small airport.

The Superfund plans to have received binding financial offers for the concession of Kalamata airport by the end of June, so as to complete the signing of the concession contract by the end of the year, to be ratified by the Parliament.

The tender for the new 25-year concession of Attki Odos attracted record-level financial offers, but the highest binding financial offer among the six candidates that participated in the process was submitted by GEK Terna.

Interest in the initial public offering of Athens International Airport is surging, with prospective investors inquiring with advisers Bank of America, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley and shareholder Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (TAIPED), the privatization agency.

The government is examining a plan for the return to the state of the depleted Prinos gas field south of Kavala after the second unsuccessful attempt by state asset fund TAIPED to keep alive the vision of utilizing it as a natural gas storage facility, this time with the possibility of mixing hydrogen.

Italian group Grimaldi, which controls 100% of Minoan Lines, bid 80 million euros for 67% of the Iraklio Port Authority and is acquiring a second Greek port of international interest.

The financial offer of the Italian group values the entire share capital of the largest port of Crete at €120 million.