{"id":2722,"date":"2007-03-01T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2007\/03\/01\/tauranga-ups-ante-in-merger-talks\/"},"modified":"2007-03-01T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T16:26:00","slug":"tauranga-ups-ante-in-merger-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2007\/03\/01\/tauranga-ups-ante-in-merger-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tauranga ups ante in merger talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although he also indicated the two parties still wanted the merger to proceed, he added: &#8220;The devil is always in the detail, agreeing something in principle doesn&#8217;t always mean that it is done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It had been speculated that Mr Parker&#8217;s statement was in response to Auckland Regional Council chairperson Mike Lee comment that Auckland should now command a share of more than 50% in any merger due to its winning of Maersk Line&#8217;s northern hub port status. Previous reports had suggested the two port companies would take a third share each in any merged entity, with an additional third share going to private investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port of Tauranga chairperson John Parker has cast doubt over the proposed merger with Ports of Auckland, following a comment the two ports will this month need to discuss whether or not, and how the merger progresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}