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Germany has blocked COSCO Shipping’s planned acquisition of an 80% stake in Hamburg freight forwarder Konrad Zippel, overriding an earlier competition clearance on national security grounds. The federal cabinet approved the prohibition on Wednesday, with the economy ministry saying the transaction would have deepened strategic dependencies and threatened the
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Germany has blocked COSCO Shipping’s planned acquisition of an 80% stake in Hamburg freight forwarder Konrad Zippel, overriding an earlier competition clearance on national security grounds. The federal cabinet approved the prohibition on Wednesday, with the economy ministry saying the transaction would have deepened strategic dependencies and threatened the[1]
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