Germany blocks sale of logistics company to China's Cosco
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(Berlin=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Gye-yeon = The business newspaper Handelsblatt reported on the 7th that the German government blocked a Chinese state-owned shipping company from acquiring a domestic logistics firm due to security concerns...
The German government has blocked the sale of a logistics company to the Chinese state shipping company Cosco. Germany is doing this due to safety concerns, the Ministry of Economic Affairs reports.
The Cartel Office had already given the green light, and now the Federal Government has stepped on the brakes: the Chinese cosco shipping company must not take over the majority of the logistics company Zippel. For security reasons, as it was called.
Planned acquisition by Cosco would have ‘deepened dependencies’ and put German and EU supply chains at risk, Economy Ministry says
Already at the Hamburg terminal Tollerort Coco caused a dispute. Now the federal government stops another entry of the Chinese state ship.
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