Stock Market

[janm.l]

I think, Stock market should also allow hostile takeovers. Let us say: If your company is much more performing than this of you concurrent you should be able to either buy it (51%) or to initiate a proxy fight (getting the votes on your side) that you get the control of the competitor and his ships. I think, RDK if you create it difficult enough to do like this it would be very nice option and another challenge in the game (also well for multiplayer). But however it would demand, that there is a freefloat(Streubesitz) of at least let us say 70% in the beginning. Also, some rare voting would be nice for major business decisions of the competitor. If you own the shares of our concurrent you could (in real life) also decide major manging decisions, like: Do we enter the Tanker sector, will we sell new shares... This would esp. for computer oppenents be a nice option.

[Henrik]

I like this whole idea a lot especially the hostile take over stuff and the ability to make decissions in other companies. I'm quite confiden that RDK can see the potential in the suggestion too.

janm.l> You sit down and develop your idea even further

[maltonmanor]

Along with buying other steamship companies, the player could also buy port facilities. I just saw this article as a real life example:

EUROPE CLEARS P&O PORT'S EGIS PLAN

A new jointly owned venture set up by UK group P&O and French liner operator CMA-CGM has been cleared to acquire an 80% stake in Egis Ports, the top container terminal operator in France.

The European Union approved the deal on Monday, removing the last hurdle for the takeover, which was agreed in November.

Egis Ports had a container throughput of 1m teu in 2001 through terminals in Le Havre, Marseille and Fos.

It is a subsidiary of the French state company Caisse des Depots et Consignations, owning 51% of MGM, one of the two container terminal operators in Marseille, and 50% of one of the three container terminal operators in Le Havre.

The container terminal assets are generally owned by French port authorities but the joint venture will have an exclusive right to operate the Marseille terminal for ten years while the other terminals are covered by annually renewable contracts.

It has also signed a letter of intent for an additional two berths in a new development in Le Havre and has exclusivity for a further expansion opportunity in the container terminal of Fos near Marseille. P&O Ports will provide the management for the joint venture.

P&O said Egis Ports had incurred losses up to this year but is expected to show steady profit growth in the future as a result of improving productivity and continued increases in container throughput.

Outside France Egis is involved in construction of a new bulk terminal in Djibouti, the building of a container terminal in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda and the privatisation of the port of Maputo in Mozambique.

P&O Ports is a leading global port operator. With 24 container terminals and logistics operations in 84 ports it has a presence in 17 countries.

Courtesy of www.tradewinds.no
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