CELEX: 32021M10451
Language: en
Date: 2021-11-22 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 22/11/2021 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10451 - DP WORLD / IMPERIAL LOGISTICS) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 22.11.2021
                                                                C(2021) 8553 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                DP World
                                                                5th Floor, LOB 17, Jebel Ali Free
                                                                Zone PO Box 17000
                                                                Dubai
                                                                United Arab Emirates
Subject:        Case M.10451– DP WORLD / IMPERIAL LOGISTICS
                Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation
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                (EC) No 139/2004 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European
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                Economic Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 26 October 2021, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which DP World
        Limited (“DP World”, United Arab Emirates) acquires within the meaning of Article
        3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the whole of Imperial Logistics
        Limited (“Imperial Logistics”, South Africa) by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
        −     for DP World: port terminal operations, maritime services, free trade zones and
              cargo handling and logistics services (i.e., discharging and loading of vessels and
              related activities) worldwide,
        −     for Imperial Logistics: transport and logistics supplier in various African
              countries and provider of contract logistics and freight services in the European
              Economic Area and the United Kingdom.
1       OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1 (the ‘Merger Regulation’). With effect from 1 December 2009, the Treaty on
        the Functioning of the European Union (‘TFEU’) has introduced certain changes, such as the
        replacement of ‘Community’ by ‘Union’ and ‘common market’ by ‘internal market’. The terminology
        of the TFEU will be used throughout this decision.
2       OJ L 1, 3.1.1994, p. 3 (the ‘EEA Agreement’).
3       Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 447, 4.11.2021, p. 6.
Commission européenne, DG COMP MERGER REGISTRY, 1049 Bruxelles, BELGIQUE
Europese Commissie, DG COMP MERGER REGISTRY, 1049 Brussel, BELGIË
Tel: +32 229-91111. Fax: +32 229-64301. E-mail: COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu.
 ---pagebreak--- 3. After examination of the notification, the European Commission has concluded that
   the notified operation falls within the scope of the Merger Regulation and of
   paragraph 5(c) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of
   certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004.4
4. For the reasons set out in the Notice on a simplified procedure, the European
   Commission has decided not to oppose the notified operation and to declare it
   compatible with the internal market and with the EEA Agreement. This decision is
   adopted in application of Article 6(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation and Article 57 of
   the EEA Agreement.
                                                  For the Commission
                                                  (Signed)
                                                  Olivier GUERSENT
                                                  Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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