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[kreature] 17/10/2022 08:21

Yep looking good. Sold a few tho

[z1co] 17/10/2022 08:18

Looks like 2p surpassed without much resistance much to my surprise.

[z1co] 17/10/2022 08:14

Looking very good this morning.Both bid and offer above 2p.

[kreature] 16/10/2022 23:39

Aramco have a lot of money too. And Maersk, and Pemex

[maywillow] 16/10/2022 21:26

Shipping family now Switzerland’s richest, say papers



The Aponte family in Geneva has become the richest in Switzerland, thanks to the pandemic, according to two Sunday newspapers.


This content was published on October 16, 2022 - 14:10 October 16, 2022 - 14:10
swissinfo.ch/jc

This family owns the Mediterranean Shipping company (MSC), which has the largest fleet of container ships in the world, write Le Matin Dimanche and Sonntagszeitung. The Aponte wealth is now estimated at as much as $100 billion, which would make them one of the richest in the world.

How did obscure Italian shipowners amass the biggest fortune ever seen in Switzerland?” asks Le Matin. To shed some light on this, the papers talked to dozens of people, including insiders. Le Matin says Gianluigi Aponte, the 82-year-old head of the family, refused an interview but that MSC “replied to some of our questions”.

When Covid-19 hit the world in early 2020, some shipping companies feared world trade would collapse and put part of their fleet in the dock, but the reverse happened, writes Le Matin. Westerners confined at home went on an online spending spree, and shipping prices soared. MSC, whose huge ships carry all kinds of things all over the world, benefitted.

“During Covid, MSC made more money than during the whole previous decade,” it quotes someone close to the company as saying.

Le Matin also writes that the company’s carbon emissions – 34 million tonnes in 2021 – are equivalent to “those of the whole of Switzerland”.

[kop202] 16/10/2022 20:52

https://twitter.com/MrMichaelSpicer/status/1581028189979041792?t=TNtDOaB1_8cuGGsWItobHA&s=19Conservative woes......so funny

[kreature] 16/10/2022 12:41

Because all the global oil refineries don’t already have the best scientists in the world working on live projects ever day of the year. Like Shell wouldn’t have a clue how to use the tarmac machine?

Those patents have been worth a fortune up to now tbf. Every good AIM company need patents really. Necessary to help get placings away imv

[the skipper] 16/10/2022 11:56

Patents, intellectual property rights, unsurpassed expertise in the field of emulsion fuels, and massive potential from the relationships it has established. What’s not to like about that?

[kreature] 16/10/2022 09:43

buy up what ? someone's bedroom ? what is there to buy ?

[hazl] 16/10/2022 09:40

Wonder if they will buy us up by any chance?

[the grumpy old men] 16/10/2022 09:40

Billions during Corona


This is the new richest family in Switzerland


The Apontes from Geneva own the largest fortune in the country.

Who are the secretive entrepreneurs behind the MSC group, whose ships emit as much CO₂ as the whole of Switzerland?

Sylvain Besson (text), Paul Ronga (data) and Mathieu Rudaz (design)
Updated 16 October 2022

First, the rumour was heard on Lake Geneva. Then it also circulated at an international shipping industry fair in Athens. The man everyone was whispering about: Gianluigi Aponte, 82 years old, secretive patron of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC).

"He has become the richest man in Switzerland, even in all of Europe," a neighbour of the family claimed last year in Geneva. In Athens, in turn, a shipping industry leader estimated the fortune at stake at $100 billion - at least.



Gianluigi Aponte and his family control around 700 freighters from MSC headquarters in Geneva.

It is the largest container ship fleet in the world.

The colossuses, up to 400 metres long, transport Chinese electronics and South American pineapples, Vietnamese canned tuna as well as Eastern European timber or Western chemicals.

As global consumers, we probably all own something that has been shipped by the Apontes.

Yet little is known about this family. How did the Italian shipowners acquire a wealth that has never existed in Switzerland? And what is the flip side of their extraordinary success?

To answer this, Tamedia's research desk gathered documents from official archives and international data leaks and interviewed dozens of people, including several insiders who had access to the inside of MSC.

Gianluigi Aponte himself declined to be interviewed. But the MSC company did answer some questions.

The sources paint a portrait of a close-knit family that subordinates everything to the interests of their company. The strategy of aggressive expansion while keeping costs low has made MSC the most powerful player in global transport shipping. But also one of the most polluting. Its CO₂ emissions of around 34 million tonnes in 2021 are practically equivalent to those of the whole of Switzerland.

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[hazl] 16/10/2022 09:39

Grumps...probably an advantage that they are privately held.
In our case anyway.

They don't have to to dance to somebody ele's tune they can just pick the best...most efficient...safest QFI...by any chance?

[hazl] 16/10/2022 09:35

Well these naysayers do waste their time here....must be paid derampers I imagine.


Must suit someone to pay them.
Is competition frightened?

[the grumpy old men] 16/10/2022 09:29

for interest




Shame its privately held

[kreature] 16/10/2022 09:29

But I think the test begins in Q1 2023, which I guess is just another way of saying ‘by Dec 2022 at the latest’

[kreature] 16/10/2022 09:25

I think salad will remember that I think it takes around 6 months to instal and commission an MMU machine into a refinery that doesn’t yet exist, with non existent agreements with refineries…..with only something like 29% of feedstock locations ever being suitable. How long did the test and proof of concept take last time? So I think we’re in for a very long haul tbf

[kreature] 16/10/2022 08:33

“ There will be many more blue days to come in this quarter alone.”

Would you just clarify, what colour days will be between the blue days?

Thanks

[z1co] 15/10/2022 10:17

hazl,

There will be many more blue days to come in this quarter alone.Providing there are no more delays regarding the trials in Morocco , Utah , MSC and other projects i expect the share price to be over 6p at some point in 2023.

Although the trial with this Industrial client in Morocco is very small compared to MSC the company is very confident that it will achieve a successful outcome in this trial and sign it's first commercial agreement.

[tizo100] 15/10/2022 09:40

spam alert

[hazl] 15/10/2022 07:33

Finished blue again.

Must have annoyed some people.

8-)

[kreature] 14/10/2022 23:36

looking good - just need wait around 7 years for the interim lono now......based on the previous efforts with Maersk. Would be good if they were masters at stringing it out

[z1co] 14/10/2022 21:44

The share price is telling us that the uptrend has just started and it's got a long way to go.

In April/May 2021 share price was over 6p.

[tongosti] 14/10/2022 20:26

Almost -96% from ath's. Is the share price telling us something?! Discuss ...

[z1co] 14/10/2022 18:12

The rise in share price is indicating after all the delays the company is very close to starting trials that will lead to commercial supply agreements.

Morocco -

Start of trials with an Industrial client in early Q4 leading to commercial supply agreement upon successful outcome.

Utah -

The result of these activities has secured heavy oil availability by end 2022, but delayed the assay information and potential samples that Quadrise and Valkor need to market MSAR(R) and bioMSAR(TM) in the region. Despite these minor delays the parties are working together to finalise the commercial terms for Phase 1 (the "Primary Project") to conclude an agreement during Q4 2022. The future use of sequestered CO(2) for enhanced oil recovery in Utah could result in a low carbon MSAR(R) or bioMSAR(TM) VLSFO alternative that would have compelling competitive advantages, especially for the marine sector.

Americas -

Through our regional agent network we are progressing projects in Panama and Honduras with thermal power generators, and in Mexico and the Caribbean with national oil companies and utilities respectively. Quadrise and its local agents, E&PC, are progressing discussions with several candidate sites in Panama and Honduras to trial MSAR(R) and bioMSAR(TM) at power plants equipped with medium speed 4 stroke diesel engines (many of which are Wärtsilä), as a precursor to potential commercial supply in 2023. Joint discussions have also recently commenced with a large refinery in the Caribbean with an interest in potential MSAR(R) supply for internal consumption or sale to regional power plants. In Mexico, the Company submitted a multi-site study in Q3 2022 to the National Oil Company supporting the implementation of MSAR(R) technology at a number of their refineries, together with documentation for one of the sites to carry out a demonstration of MSAR(R) refinery refuelling on a fuel oil boiler and/or fired heater in 2023.

From 03/10/2022:

Since presenting bioMSAR(TM) at the International Maritime Organisation (" IMO") in London during their International Shipping Week in September 2021 there has been a steady flow of enquiries from the maritime sector. According to UK Research and Innovation, the shipping industry is responsible for over 900 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually, roughly 2.5% of the world's total emissions. While a number of lower-carbon and potentially net-zero solutions are in development, they are not ready to be utilised at scale and will require significant investment in either retrofitting existing fleets or building new vessels. Quadrise's solutions are available immediately, and can be deployed at low cost to achieve immediate benefits during the transition to a Net Zero GHG future.

The last paragraph is of particular interest.