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...In early July, MSC, the Swiss-based shipping empire founded by Italian billionaire Gianluigi Aponte, did not take delivery of the liner from shipbuilder Fincantieri at a day’s notice after Paroc lost the...
...MSC, the Geneva-based group owned by Italy’s billionaire Aponte family, and Milan-listed Fincantieri declined to comment further....
...Prosecutors are looking into allegations Kohler favoured the interests of Mediterranean Shipping Company, a Swiss-Italian group controlled by his cousins, the Aponte family....
...“I have no doubt that MSC was more profitable than Maersk during these boom years,” says one person who knows the Aponte family well....
...We don’t have any single-use plastics, and we try to minimise waste as much as possible,” says Aponte....
...“I’m not here so that Panama has to choose between the US and China,” says the American ambassador, Mari Carmen Aponte. But that is how it can often feel to Panamanians. michael.stott@ft.com...
...in August and is the first of six due to be launched over the next five years by Explora Journeys, a new high-end subsidiary of MSC, the Geneva-based shipping conglomerate owned by the multi-billionaire Aponte...
...The world’s biggest container shipping group is owned by the Aponte family, and the deal follows a trend of family offices moving into healthcare....
...The founder, owner and chair of MSC is 81-year-old Italian billionaire Gianluigi Aponte....
...Prosecutors are looking into allegations Kohler favoured the interests of Mediterranean Shipping Company, the Swiss-Italian maritime shipping group controlled by his cousins, the Aponte family....
...Before the entry of an outsider into the family-run business, MSC had mostly relied on organic growth, as opposed to large-scale mergers and acquisitions, to scale up since its founding in 1970 by Gianluigi Aponte...
...The company is in the throes of change after Toft, who joined MSC at the end of last year, shocked the industry by leaving Maersk to become the first outsider to take the helm of the group owned by the Aponte...
...It has taken 50 years — but now Gianluigi Aponte, the secretive shipping magnate, is about to reach the summit....
...He took over as chief executive and later chair of MSC in 2003, the same year he married Alexa, the daughter of MSC founder Gianluigi Aponte, who was a childhood friend....
...It is also significant that Toft, who joined MSC from Maersk in December, has spoken out, as the group has rarely courted publicity since its founding in 1970 by Gianluigi Aponte....
...Mr Aponte agrees: “I wouldn’t want to burden my family with all this. Friends and family tell you what you want to hear.”...
...Mediapart alleges that Mr Kohler did not reveal his mother was a cousin of Rafaela Aponte, who founded MSC with her husband. A spokesperson for the Elysee called the claims “unfounded.”...
...Mr Kohler’s mother is a cousin of Rafaela Aponte, who founded the cruise operator with her husband, according to Mediapart....
...The fugitive judge, Eladio Aponte Aponte, was removed from office in March over charges that he provided fake documents to alleged drug trafficker Walid Makled....
...Poor old Eladio Aponte. It had all been going so well....
...Eladio Aponte Aponte, who escaped from Venezuela after he was dismissed over his supposed connection with alleged drug lord Walid Makled, also claimed to have evidence linking high-ranking military officials...
...Mr Aponte said it was the pair’s strategy to expand the new alliance still further....
...Representatives of the Aponte family, which controls MSC, and the Saadé family, which controls CMA CGM, told the Financial Times last week the alliance was intended to make the best possible use of the significant...
...Mr Aponte says: “I think that the big operators will all come out very strong, and I think that we will all recover our losses in 2010,”....
...No large shipping line would collapse because of recent difficulties, Mr Aponte added....
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