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General Announcement: :Announcement


General Announcement: :Announcement Issuer & Securities

Issuer/ Manager

NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LIMITED

Stapled Security

No


Announcement Details


Announcement Title

General Announcement

Date & Time of Broadcast

21-Nov-2015 21:00:37

Status

New

Announcement Sub Title

Announcement

Announcement Reference

SG1511210THRS11//W

Submitted By (Co./ Ind. Name)

Looi Lee Hwa (Ms) & Wong Kim Wah (Ms)

Designation

Company Secretaries


Description (Please provide a detailed description of the event in the box below)

Announcement


Neptune Orient Lines Limited ('NOL') notes recent media reports and wishes to announce that it and its single largest shareholder , Lentor Investments Pte. Ltd. ('Lentor') (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temas'* Holdings (Private) Limited), have entered into an exclusivity agreement with CMA CGM S.A. ('CMA CGM') with respect to a potential acquisition of NOL by way of pre-conditional voluntary general offer ('Offer').


Pursuant to the agreement, NOL and Lentor have granted CMA CGM exclusivity until 11.59 p.m. (Singapore time) on 7 December 2015 to complete customary confirmatory due diligence on NOL and its subsidiaries and negotiate the definitive agreements to be entered into in relation to the Offer.


There is no assurance that such negotiation will result in any definitive agreement or transaction or that any offer for NOL will be made. NOL will make an appropriate announcement in the event that there are any material developments . Shareholders of NOL and investors are therefore advised to exercise caution when dealing in shares in and other

securities of NOL.


By Order of the Board of

NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LIMITED


Looi Lee Hwa (Ms) and Wong Kim Wah (Ms) Company Secretaries

21 November 2015 , Singapore


The Directors of NOL (including any who may have delegated detailerj supervision of this Announcement) have taken all reasonable care to ensure that the facts stated and all opinions expressed in this Announcement are fair and accurate and that no material facts have been omitted from this Announcement , and they jointly and severally accept responsibility accordingly.


Where any information has been extracted or reproduced from published or publicly available sources, the sole responsibility of the Directors of NOL has been to ensure through reasonable enquiries that such information is accurately extracted from such sources or, as the case may be, reflected or reproduced in this Announcement.

Attachments


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http://infopub.sgx.com/ Apps?A=COW_CorpAnnouncement. .. 11/23/2015


NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LIMITED

(Company Registration No. 196800632D)


Announcement


Neptune Orient Lines Limited ('NOL') notes recent media reports and wishes to announce that it and its single largest shareholder, Lentor Investments Pte. Ltd. ('Lentor') (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited), have entered into an exclusivity agreement with CMA CGM S.A. ('CMA CGM') with respect to a potential acquisition of NOL by way of pre-conditional voluntary general offer ('Offer').


Pursuant to the agreement, NOL and Lentor have granted CMA CGM exclusivity until 11.59 p.m. (Singapore time) on 7 December 2015 to complete customary confirmatory due diligence on NOL and its subsidiaries and negotiate the definitive agreements to be entered into in relation to the Offer.


There is no assurance that such negotiation will result in any definitive agreement or transaction or that any offer for NOL will be made. NOL will make an appropriate announcement in the event that there are any material developments. Shareholders of NOL and investors are therefore advised to exercise caution when dealing in shares in and other securities of NOL.


By Order of the Board of

NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LIMITED


Looi Lee Hwa (Ms) and Wong Kim Wah (Ms) Company Secretaries

21 November 2015, Singapore


The Directors of NOL (including any who may have delegated detailed supervision of this Announcement) have taken all reasonable care to ensure that the facts stated and all opinions expressed in this Announcement are fair and accurate and that no material facts have been omitted from this Announcement, and they jointly and severally accept responsibility accordingly.


Where any information has been extracted or reproduced from published or publicly available sources, the sole responsibility of the Directors of NOL has been to ensure through reasonable enquiries that such information is accurately extracted from such sources or, as the case may be, reflected or reproduced in this Announcement.

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