It will now take around six months before the Dubai-based group will be able to dispose of those assets. Among those bidding are infrastructure funds, private equity houses and ‘strategic bidders’, all of which have US-based parent companies, although several are bidding with overseas minority partners. Despite the loss of its US assets, DPW is due to boost its global container handling capacity from 46.5m teu to 70m teu within the next few years.