Piraeus, April 1st 2020
PRESS RELEASE
Public disclosure of inside information according to Regulation (EU) 596/2014 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1055
The Board of Directors of the company under the name "Piraeus Port Authority Société Anonyme" (hereinafter "PPA S.A.") announces that at its meeting of 20.02.2020 it has decided to provide a permission, in accordance with article 100 par. 1 of Law 4548/2018, for the conclusion of a transaction of PPA S.A. with the company under the name "PIRAEUS CONTAINER TERMINAL S.A." (hereinafter "PCT S.A."), which is a related party to PPA S.A. In particular, PPA S.A. as a subsidiary of "COSCO SHIPPING (Hong Kong) Limited" and PCT S.A. as a subsidiary of "COSCO SHIPPING Ports Limited" are related parties within the meaning of Article 99 par. 2 (a) of L. 4548/2018, as ultimate subsidiaries of "China COSCO SHIPPING Corporation Limited" ("COSCO SHIPPING Group").
The subject of the transaction will be the provision of project management services by PCT S.A. to PPA S.A. for the business operation of Pier I of PPA S.A. and the main points of the contract, which has been executed today, 01/04/2020, under usual commercial terms, are the following: PCT S.A. will provide to PPA S.A. a wide range of highly specialized services related to the operation of the PIER I Container Terminal, for the purpose of PPA S.A. to achieve:
(i) the overall utilization of the Piraeus Container Terminal resources,
(ii) the increase of the total throughput of Pier I of the port of Piraeus,
(iii) the improvement of the quality of services provided by PPA S.A. in the Container Terminal of Pier I. The fee of PCT S.A. will be a fixed annual service fee of sixty seven thousand Euros (€ 67,000.00) plus VAT, plus an additional management fee of four Euros (€ 4) per move, for any moves that exceed the throughput targets agreed each time, which for the period from the signing of the contract until January 31, 2021 will be 650,000 TEUs, with PCT S.A. guaranteeing throughput for this period of not less than 500,000 TEUs. The term of the contract will be three (3) years from the date of signature, with the possibility of a written extension and the right to terminate upon prior written notice (thirty days for substantial reason, or six months for any other reason). The applicable law will be Greek, and any disputes will be settled by arbitration, in accordance with ICC Rules.
For providing permission for the above transaction, the Board of Directors of PPA S.A. considered the fairness opinion dated 19/02/2020 of the auditing firm "Audit Plus S.A. Auditors", with SOEL Registry Number 172, as signed by the Chartered Accountant and Certified Auditor Gerassimos Anast. Zafeiratos with SOEL Registry Number 20901, which assesses that the transaction is fair and reasonable for the Company and its non-related shareholders, including minority shareholders, and explains the assumptions on which it is based, together with the methods used.
The PPA S.A. Board of Directors minutes dated 20.02.2020, accompanied by the fairness opinion, was registered in the General Business Registry (GEMI) on 27.02.2020, according to the announcement nr. 23639 of the department for supervision of Listed Sociétés Anonymes of the General Secretariat for Commerce & Consumer Protection.
