TUI AG, the biggest stakeholder in the Hapag-Lloyd shipping line, fell the most in two weeks in German trading after Financial Times Deutschland said Hapag’s bid for state aid may be derailed by the European Union.

Hapag wants loan guarantees worth 1.2 billion euros ($1.76 billion)
from Germany’s federal government, an amount that exceeds the company’s
annual wage bill by tenfold and violates EU rules, the newspaper said,
citing unidentified people close to the transaction.

TUI didn’t immediately return a phone call seeking comment. A spokesman
for the German government declined to comment on the FTD report.

TUI shares fell as much as 5.3 percent and were down 33 cents, or 4.5
percent, to 6.83 euros at 9:15 a.m., the biggest drop in Germany’s MDAX
index of medium-sized companies.

“It is clearly negative that the refinancing of Hapag- Lloyd is at
risk,” Equinet AG analysts wrote this morning, cutting TUI shares to
“reduce” from “hold.”

On Aug. 14, lenders to Hapag-Lloyd filed an application for state
guarantees through its lenders. The government is expected to make its
decision on the case before national elections, which are held Sept. 27.

Source: Bloomberg

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