The Catania-based transportation company Nicolosi Trasporti announced at the beginning of August 2024 the acquisition of Vicenza's Alpetrans Italia and its Bulgarian subsidiary, Alpetrans Bulgaria. The Veneto hauler had been declared under Procedura Unificata by the Vicenza Court on May 16, 2024. This status, introduced in July 2022 by the Business Crisis and Insolvency Code, serves as a comprehensive framework for all applications (whether consensual or not) for crisis and insolvency regulation and applies to situations of crisis or insolvency affecting debtors, consumers, professionals, and entrepreneurs.
Alpetrans is headquartered in Marostica with a branch in Milan, in addition to its Bulgarian subsidiary. According to its website, the company operates a fleet of 200 industrial vehicles of various types: tractor-trailers, trucks with trailers, single trucks, and vans, with a portion of the fleet being refrigerated. Before the crisis, it operated in several sectors, notably international and temperature-controlled transportation, as well as third-party logistics with two platforms in Pozzoleone (Vicenza) and in the Maap fruit and vegetable market in Padua. In its last published financial statement for 2022, the company reported a turnover of €41,764,572, but details regarding its debt situation were not disclosed. The parties have not revealed the acquisition value.
Nicolosi Trasporti, headquartered in Catania, was founded in 1962 as a sole proprietorship by Sebastiano Nicolosi. Today, it organizes full-load transports throughout Europe, Tunisia, and Libya with tarpaulin, box, and refrigerated trucks, handling all types of goods, and offers third-party logistics services in over 25,000 square meters of ambient temperature warehouses and 3,600 square meters of temperature-controlled storage. In the domestic market, it specializes in road-sea combined transport, for which it has a fleet of 600 intermodal semi-trailers and 80 swap bodies.
