{"id":4485,"date":"2016-04-11T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2016\/04\/11\/melbourne-tender-pulls-in-the-crowds\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:40:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:40:01","slug":"melbourne-tender-pulls-in-the-crowds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2016\/04\/11\/melbourne-tender-pulls-in-the-crowds\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne tender pulls in the crowds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian State Treasurer Tim Pallas said there has been strong bidder interest and he expects a leaseholder to be chosen before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Bids of anywhere between A$5bn-A$7bn ($US3.8bn-US$5.3bn) have been touted, given the strong competition that has been shown when other Australian ports have been privatised and also the keen interest shown in the current privatisation process in Papua New Guinea, where six major international players are among the 13 expressions of interest.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting aside to the Melbourne situation is that the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) will now review proposed critical infrastructure assets sold by state and territory governments.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government secured state and territory support to change the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Regulation, to allow the sale of infrastructure assets to private foreign investors to come under scrutiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry interest is mounting as expressions of interest for the lease of the Port of Melbourne approach the April 18 deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485","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=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4487,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions\/4487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}