Toll to acquire Perkins Shipping

Toll Group, the Asian region’s leading provider of integrated logistics services, has reachedagreement for the purchase of 100% of the shares in Perkins Group Holdings Pty Limited, the parent of the Perkins Shipping Group. The conditions for the transaction include competition clearance.

The Toll Group generated revenue in excess of A$5.6 billion for the year ending June 2008 and employs 30,000 people in more than 50 countries around the world.

The Perkins Group provides shipping, integrated freight services, land haul services and genera freight services. Services offered by Perkins Shipping include international shipping between Darwin and Singapore via Timor Leste and coastal shipping throughout northern Australia. “The increasing importance of south-east Asian trade to northern Australia reinforces the future prospects for organic growth of the Perkins’ international shipping services linking Australia and Asia.

“The Toll Group’s internationally integrated service offering is already benefiting our Asian and Australian customers. With its potential for future regional growth we are confident our customers will find Perkins’ Shipping a valuable addition to the Toll Group,” said Mr Paul Little, Managing Director of the Toll Group.

The acquisition is forecast to be EPS accretive in year one and will be funded out of existing facilities. “Toll’s strong balance sheet and the Group’s exceptional existing businesses continue to provide the funding capacity and platform to acquire quality assets like Perkins Shipping despite current difficult economic times,” Mr Little concluded.

 

(Source: Transport Weekly)