Haifa port officially goes into private hands.
A festive ceremony will be held today (Tuesday) in the presence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Transportation Miri Regev, Haifa Mayor Einat Kalish and other invitees.
Ownership of Haifa Port will be transferred to the Indian business group Gautam Adani, which made the purchase in July for approximately four billion shekels.
The new group will hold the concession to operate the port until 2054.
The port of Haifa is the second largest in Israel in terms of handling containers, and the largest port in Israel in transporting passengers and tourist cruise ships.
The scope of handling by the Port of Haifa in general cargo, bulk and cars is expected to grow substantially in the coming years, and these areas will receive great weight in the company's investments and attention.
So according to the new purchasing group.
The company that purchased the port is headed by Gautam Shantilal Adni, an Indian industrialist and billionaire, chairman and founder of the Adni Group, an Indian multinational corporation engaged in the development of ports and various operations in India. He founded the Adni Group in 1988 and diversified his business into, among other things, resources, logistics, Energy, agriculture, defense and space.
In May 2022 he entered the list of the five richest people in the world for the first time, with his personal fortune estimated at more than 125 billion dollars, a month later he overtook Bill Gates and rose to fourth place, and later this year he registered a value of 157 billion dollars and also overtook Jeff Bezos and Bernard Arnault , and was second only to Elon Musk.
Adni was included in the list of 100 most influential people in the world for 2022 by Time magazine.
In the last week, the owner of the new port suffered sharp declines of about 15% following a report published in the US, according to which he performed a series of accounting exercises.
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