Italian infrastructure fund F2i SGR has agreed to acquire the MarterNeri Group, a port terminal operator in Monfalcone and Livorno, Italy, from VEI Log Spa.
The acquisition will be carried out through F2i Holding Portuale (FHP), a company wholly-owned by the Third F2i Fund and the F2i-ANIA Fund. MarterNeri’s operations will be integrated with those already carried out by FHP in the four terminals in Carrara, Marghera and Chioggia that were acquired in 2019.
The consolidation into FHP gives rise to the largest Italian port operator in the dry bulk sector with operations in the northern Adriatic and Tyrrhenian seas, more than 7 million tonnes of cargo handled annually, seven terminals under management, 200 pieces of lifting and handling equipment, warehouses and interconnecting infrastructures.
The dry bulk sector (steel and meta
