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SECTION 4

Description of the concentration

This notification concerns the following undertakings:

Nippon Express Holdings, Inc (NX), a Japanese company headquartered in Tokyo and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and Cargo-Partner Group (CP), headquartered in Austria, controlled by Cargo Partner Group Holding AG (CP Group Holding), Multi Transport und Logistik Holding AG (Multi), Safer Overseas Transport Holding GmbH (Safer) and Cargo-Partner GND GmbH (GND), and Cargo-Partner US Holding Inc (Cargo-Partner US, together with CP Group Holding, Multi, Safer and GND referred to as the Sellers)

NX will acquire, within the meaning of Article 3(1), point (b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the whole of CP.

The concentration is accomplished by way of purchase of shares.

The main business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

a. for NX: freight forwarding and contract logistics activities.

b. for CP: freight forwarding and, to a lesser extent, contract logistics activities.

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