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Greek Liquidation Sale Begins: German Company Wins Privatization Bid For 14 Greek Regional Airports

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Greek Liquidation Sale Begins: German Company Wins Privatization Bid For 14 Greek Regional Airports

Who would have thought.

A German company, airport operator FRAPORT won the bid to operate and maintain 14 regional airports, considered to be top of the top in Greece. With an offer of 1.23 billion euro, the consortium of Fraport-Slentel (a unit of Greek energy group Copelouzos) won the bid to lease the regional airports for 40+10 years. Among the 14 regional airports are those on most popular tourist Greek islands like Mykonos, Rhodes, Kos, Santorini and Corfu. It is the first privatization deal under SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government and the biggest privatization deal in Greece since beginning of the crisis and the bailout programs in 2010.

The Deal

 

Total €1.23 billion for the whole period of lease

 

Annual rent of22.9 million per year 

 

25% of the before tax, interest, revenues amortization and fees for Civil Aviation Authority

 

Pledge to invest €330 million to upgrade the airports in the first four years and a total of €1.4 billion for the next four decades. (source)

Already in November 2014, Greece’s privatization company Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) had declared Fraport-Slentel Consortium as the “preferred bidder” stating that its offer was “significantly higher” than the second best bid. The offers for the tender were submitted in October 2014.

Bidders – Consortiums

 

1. Argentina’s holding company CASA (Corporation America) – Greece engineering company METKA (Mytilinaios)

2. Germany’s FRAPORT – Greek Slentel (Kopelouzos)

3. France’s VINCI – Greek ACTOR (Bobolas)

According to HRADF statement, consultants for the tender were : “Citigroup Global Markets Limited and Eurobank EFG Equities Investment Firm S.A. as financial advisors, Your Legal Partners and  Drakopoulous & Vasalakis Law firm as legal advisors and Lufthansa consulting, Doksiadis Associates and Alanna Consulting Group, as technical advisors to assist with the privatisation.”

What is highly interesting is that Lufthansa is also shareholder in Fraport at 8.45%. In Fraport official site, the shareholder structure is given as:

State of Hesse 31.35 %
Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main Holding GmbH 20.02 %
Deutsche Lufthansa AG 8.45 %
RARE Infrastructure Limited 4.87 % (10/03/2015)
Unknown 35.31 %

On August 13th the deal was sealed by the Greek government, yesterday, Monday, the decision was published in Greece’s official Gazette.

The 14 airports are divided into two groups:

Group A: the airports in Thessaloniki, Corfu, Chania, Kefalonia, Zakynthos, Aktion and Kavala

Group B: the airports on Rhodes, Kos, Samos, Lesvos, Mykonos, Santorini and Skiathos.

The privatization deal will upgrade the airports in Greece’s most favorite tourist destinations improving the first image of the country to the million of tourists flocking each and every year. According to the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the number of international tourists visiting Greece grew by 17 percent in the first half of 2014.  This continues the strong performance of last year when Greece welcomed some 18 million international tourists.

But just 330 million euro in investment for 14 airports in the next four years? This is €82,500,000 per year, and €5,892,857.1429 per airport each year. OK, jobs will be created and really miserable airports like the International Airport on Kos will improve their services and capacities.

Now, some mean Greeks claim that the investment will be assisted with European Funds (ESPA) and some others – equally mean – wonder whether the new lessee will pay Value Added Tax to the Greek state and do not act like the German Hochtief that has been refusing to pay V.A.T. for handling Athens International Airport ‘Eleftherios Venizelos’ for more than 20 years.

Some other Greeks realized that in all three consortium bidders were also the famous and powerful Greek businessmen, also known as "national contractors" for having secured contracts with the Greek state for building roads, bridges, and whatever Greece wanted to build and construct in order to modernize the country in the last decades, including energy, natural gas, sewage, just to name  additional few.

PS if you’re an investor interested in Greek assets here are the running tenders of HRADF for ports, trains and whatever else your soul wishes.

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For those curious who sits on the Fraport Supervisory and Advisory board, here is the answer:

 

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Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:07 | 6438339 doctor10
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once all this goes down-why does NOT flying into these airports seem like such a good idea?

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:12 | 6438346 Haus-Targaryen
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This is such a waste of money.  As soon as Greece does pop this stuff will all get nationalized again.  

Unless of course these assets have nationalization insurance taking out in CHF for their "FMV" not acquisition value, then if that is the case you are just handing the hot-potato to the insurance company.  

Huge lol is still on the purchasers though, because if Greece pops the insurance companies won't be able to pay out, so its just throwing money down the drain.  

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:19 | 6438362 SheepRevolution
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The first, second and third reich all failed. But the fourth might just go all the way:

“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.”

John Adams

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:28 | 6438380 Headbanger
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ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US..

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:19 | 6438511 TeethVillage88s
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Strategically important Ports for NATO, Germany, and the USA.

Greek Communism has been being fought since 1947 Act of US Congress.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 11:11 | 6439060 FreeMoney
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This sounds more like Greece is going to be the next Hawaii.  Local ogliarches getting a payoff, foreigners getting ownership, local population left to mix drinks and serve food. 

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 09:09 | 6438651 Groundhog Day
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how much is a burnt down airport worth to the germans?  oh wait the greeks just like to bend over and take it

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:31 | 6438538 EscapeKey
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please stop quoting these bogus quotations. he never actually said this.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 09:05 | 6438638 Jaspergers
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"Those who would surrender sovereignty for solvency deserve neither and will lose both." -Salma Hayek

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 09:17 | 6438675 EscapeKey
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"don't believe everything you read on the internet" --Abraham Lincoln

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 09:31 | 6438713 TeethVillage88s
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Was that from the Movie Lincoln Vampire Hunter?

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 10:46 | 6438937 Tarshatha
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"Better to be hung for a sheep than a lamb"

-- My mum

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 09:23 | 6438690 Antifaschistische
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well, there probably is a John Adam's somewhere who has said it.  :)

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 09:30 | 6438707 TeethVillage88s
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Last Quote on link:

John Adams Quotes on Economy

“All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise, not from want of honor or virtue, but from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.”

– John Adams, Letter to Thomas Jefferson, August 25, 1787.

“The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.”

– John Adams, First Address to Congress, Nov. 23, 1797.

“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.”
– John Adams

http://www.john-adams-heritage.com/quotes/

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:19 | 6438360 ZippyBananaPants
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Don't Greeks have the patent on the 'back door'?
I'm sure they could sell that off to the U.S. Government!

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 11:14 | 6439072 FreeMoney
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Patents expire after 17 years...and that ship sailed a long time ago.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:09 | 6438340 Senduko
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I bet the greek will be very happy about this lol

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:11 | 6438343 BurningBetty
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Bravo Greece! You are on the right track. Keep it up! Sooner rather then later your country will not have any sovereignity left.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:31 | 6438539 EscapeKey
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Greemany.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:12 | 6438347 indygo55
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Who gets the money again? I would like to see the list of disbursements. 

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:11 | 6438492 HowdyDoody
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Germany / Goldman

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:56 | 6438618 TeethVillage88s
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Maybe, but Frankfurt/Hess is Headquarters of DB, Deutsche Bank Twin Towers, Taunusanlage 12, Frankfurt,
Germany

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:23 | 6438520 Core112
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The lenders and the banks. According to the new memorandum, most of it will go to recapitalize the banks, next is the debt, and if there's any money left over (there won't) it will go for "development", whatever that is.

Although I know that Greek people are exhausted, I don't understand why they are not revolting.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 10:00 | 6438781 Arnold
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I knew a couple of revolting Greeks, but most of them are nice.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:13 | 6438348 dogfish
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Grease up them runways.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:21 | 6438514 TeethVillage88s
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Turkey slipped in the Greece and landed in Shiite.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:34 | 6438544 dogfish
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oooops

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:51 | 6438600 TeethVillage88s
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Greece is the Great Slippery Pearl of the Mediterranean.

Islands up your Djibouti.

Assets from here to Timbuktu.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:13 | 6438349 q99x2
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In WWII my father helped kick the Germans out of Greece. Now they are going to be the ones to show Greece to the world.

Replace Lloyd Blankfein with open source software.. 

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:14 | 6438353 ToSoft4Truth
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Nice.  Hopefully the Germans leave the Greeks unemployed.  LOL 

They can stand at the gate.  “We owned all that.  Traded it for… what?”

 

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:21 | 6438371 Joe A
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They already leave them all unemployed cause Germany's pushed austerity killed off SME in Greece.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:24 | 6438376 ToSoft4Truth
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The Greeks won’t sand up for themselves.  They’ll eat from the garbage cans. 

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:35 | 6438393 IndianaJohn
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End product of generations long welfare.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:37 | 6438397 ToSoft4Truth
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I have Social Security to rely on…  Medicare too. 

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:36 | 6438546 TeethVillage88s
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Well a lot of people say that. It is a meme smear.

But USA is not that different.

- USA has more Debt than Greece
- USA has same percentage of Government workers
- USA can print money, but Greece can't
- Greece & USA have high External Debt
- Foreign ownership of US Govt Debt is 45%
- US has poor stewardship of World Reserve Currency, Greece has no currency or huge bond market like the USA
- Both Greece & USA are mixed Economies with Social Programs

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:30 | 6438536 TeethVillage88s
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Hey anyone that can wear those costumes has got balls!

And in some cases Balls on their feet!

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:16 | 6438355 buzzsaw99
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greece should be happy to bend over for the fatherland.

your father he may curse you, your father he may beat you, your father he may take your last piece of meat. [/Latka]

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:27 | 6438378 ToSoft4Truth
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The ‘new owners’ will be flashing black and white photos showing their forefathers standing on stacks of dead Greeks.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:42 | 6438564 TeethVillage88s
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Wait till all the German babies are born half Greeks in Greece.

Rape is the best way to conquer a country.

Some ways are still the best.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 10:09 | 6438804 HowdyDoody
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Ve haf wayz of making you bend ofer.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:15 | 6438356 CHC
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Bye bye Greece, it was great knowing you.  In the near future you'll be able to look back upon your glorious past...with mist in your eys and pain in your hearts.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:39 | 6438554 TeethVillage88s
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Wouldn't the Germans be surprised if NATO sent in the Turks to act as a Peacekeeping force, organize the illegal immigrants, police the riots... in Greece.

And then wouldn't NATO be surprised when Kurds and Turks start fighting openly in Greece.

And wouldn't the Germans lose money on their assets in Greece as a result of the Islamification and endless war in Greece?

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 10:03 | 6438792 Arnold
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If we rename it , it will change.

I suggest.......... Oil.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 11:18 | 6439086 FreeMoney
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I think the pain will be lower than that...

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:19 | 6438367 Joe A
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Germany is not going to stop there. After Greece some other country paralised by austerity will be up for grabs. In the mean time Germany will continue to profit from crisis in other European countries. Well played Germany, you profited the most from the Euro in the meanwhile proclaiming that this time it is different and you don't want a German Europe. BS.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:38 | 6438400 Fíréan
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Heh. the lights are coming on !
Wasn't this just the whole intent from the outset, germany takes over Europe yet this time without a bomb being dropped, nor a shell being fired.
Then next up will be the TTIP agreement and there won't be any national bodies to resist, no ?

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:24 | 6438375 cwsuisse
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We now need to abolish the Greek language which is an incomprehensible nuisance anyway, introduce mandatory German language and make the flights domestic. Than we have the perfect German holiday resort - well, with the exception,  that VAT is even higher than in Germany. 

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:29 | 6438382 ToSoft4Truth
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“Now pack your shit and git.”

- Merkel

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:34 | 6438389 eddiebe
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Looks like the bankers plan is working perfectly.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:38 | 6438401 eddiebe
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This has nothing to do with ' Germany vs. Greece. This is bankers and their Troika lackeys vs. all Europeans (or should I say Europeons).

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:42 | 6438407 EurGold
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Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:01 | 6438444 silverer
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While we're at it, lets plug some other sellers as well, so you won't be considered spam and get booted off the site! Dumb ass.

goldsilver.com/buy-online
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goldline.com
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buybullion.co
usgoldbureau.com

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:57 | 6438440 Blitzkrieg77
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The destruction of and transformation of Greece into the Fourth Reich's vassal state is well underway.

 

https://glblgeopolitics.wordpress.com/category/the-fourth-reich/

 

Yesterday it was Cyprus. Today it's Greece. Tomorrow could be Italy, Spain, France, Portugal or even Great Britain.

 

“You have not anchored Germany to Europe,… You have anchored Europe to a newly dominant, unified Germany. In the end, my friends, you’ll find it will not work.“ – Margaret Thatcher

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 07:59 | 6438449 silverer
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I wonder who's going to bid on all the US assets in a couple of years?  We have more debt than anyone.  The entire country will be up for grabs to our creditors!

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:01 | 6438454 youngman
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I would be a buyer of some National Forest land or BLM land....In Colorado

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:00 | 6438452 youngman
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I have negociaed many a contract..but this one would be difficult knowing that Greece is going to default.....how do you cover for that???  And you would have to have two curriencies in the mix

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:17 | 6438504 eddiebe
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Wake up greek people, you can print your own, then you won't have to go begging for euros.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 09:42 | 6438740 Anopheles
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Greece printing their own money will gurantee they will go begging for Euros. 

Just becasue they can print it, doesn't mean it will be worth anything.   Which it won't. 

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:31 | 6438537 SMC
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Carpetbaggers.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 09:11 | 6438657 NoWayJose
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"How many Divisions does the Pope have?" - Adolf Hitler

"Give me control of a nation's debt and I don't care how many Divisions a country has!" - Angela Merkel

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 11:53 | 6439256 fowlerja
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Wow...I hope they read Donald Trump's "The Art of a Deal" before putting this contract out for bid...

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 11:59 | 6439274 Full Nelson
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Goddammit Greeks!  Why the fuck won't you malakas get up and REVOLT?

The god they speak of in church is not coming to save you.

Get the pitchforks now.

Tue, 08/18/2015 - 13:08 | 6439569 Prober
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whole country should be auctioned off to repay creditors

Wed, 08/19/2015 - 03:54 | 6442693 talisman
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Did this deal come with a condom?
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