{"id":26887,"date":"2020-12-17T09:19:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T08:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=26887"},"modified":"2020-12-17T09:19:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T08:19:50","slug":"eph-enters-slovenia","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/press-releases\/eph-enters-slovenia\/","title":{"rendered":"EPH enters Slovenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slovenian Railways and&nbsp;EP Logistic International a.s. signed an Investment and&nbsp;Shareholder Agreement based on which the&nbsp;parties entered into a&nbsp;strategic partnership.\u00a0 According to the&nbsp;Agreement, the&nbsp;parties will create a&nbsp;joint venture company whose capital will consist of&nbsp;100% share of&nbsp;Slovenske \u017eeleznice &#8211; Tovorni promet and&nbsp;Fersped (contributed by Slovenian Railways) and&nbsp;an agreed amount of&nbsp;cash (contributed by EP Logistics International) specified in&nbsp;the&nbsp;above Agreement.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201eBoth partners, EPLI and&nbsp;S\u017d have the&nbsp;ambition to jointly turn the&nbsp;JV company into a&nbsp;major rail and&nbsp;logistics operator in&nbsp;South Eastern Europe, unlocking full potential of&nbsp;S\u017d-TP and&nbsp;Fersped assets. The&nbsp;underlying plan is to service region-wide customers through own licensed structures operating modern and&nbsp;efficient rail hardware (e.g. multi-system locomotives, etc.) and&nbsp;create profitable, cost efficient, and&nbsp;dividend-paying business,\u201c<\/em> said <strong>Tom\u00e1\u0161 Novotn\u00fd<\/strong>, Chairman of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Board of&nbsp;EPLI.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the&nbsp;Slovenian domestic market, our goal is to concentrate on the&nbsp;markets of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Western Balkans (Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro), Italy, Austria and&nbsp;Hungary, while increasing the&nbsp;prominence of&nbsp;Koper as a&nbsp;local cargo hub.<\/p>\n<p>EP Logistics International declared that, should opportunities arise for expansion of&nbsp;joint operations, it is willing to commit additional financing for the&nbsp;joint venture company.<\/p>\n<h6>S\u017d-Tovorni promet (\u201cS\u017d-TP\u201d) and&nbsp;Fersped offer comprehensive and&nbsp;intermodal freight rail, maritime, road and&nbsp;air logistics services on the&nbsp;Slovenian market as well as abroad, achieving annual revenues around EUR&nbsp;200 million.<\/h6>\n<h6>EP Logistics International, a.s. (\u201cEPLI\u201d) is a&nbsp;wholly owned subsidiary of&nbsp;Energetick\u00fd a&nbsp;pr\u016fmyslov\u00fd holding, a.s. (\u201cEPH\u201d) and&nbsp;serves as a&nbsp;holding company consolidating EPH companies specialized in&nbsp;logistics and&nbsp;transportation, with activities ranging from railway operations, including forwarding, rolling stock lease, intermodal operations, to loco- and&nbsp;personnel-pooling activities in&nbsp;the&nbsp;Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and&nbsp;Germany. In&nbsp;2019, total revenues of&nbsp;companies consolidated in&nbsp;EPLI reached EUR&nbsp;200 million.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slovenian Railways and&nbsp;EP Logistic International a.s. signed an Investment and&nbsp;Shareholder Agreement based on which the&nbsp;parties entered into a&nbsp;strategic partnership.\u00a0 According to the&nbsp;Agreement, the&nbsp;parties will create a&nbsp;joint venture company whose capital will consist of&nbsp;100% share of&nbsp;Slovenske \u017eeleznice &#8211; Tovorni promet and&nbsp;Fersped (contributed by Slovenian Railways) and&nbsp;an agreed amount of&nbsp;cash (contributed by EP Logistics International) specified in&nbsp;the&nbsp;above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"tax-year":[90],"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[{"locale":"cs_CZ","id":26885,"post_title":"EPH vstupuje do Slovinska","href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/eph-vstupuje-do-slovinska\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases\/26887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tax-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax-year?post=26887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}