{"id":9117,"date":"2014-08-12T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2014\/08\/12\/asciano-confirms-interest-in-equity-sell-off\/"},"modified":"2014-08-12T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T14:37:00","slug":"asciano-confirms-interest-in-equity-sell-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/oceania\/asciano-confirms-interest-in-equity-sell-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Asciano confirms interest in equity sell-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement, Asciano said the discussions are at the preliminary stage and would only involve a non-controlling interest.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports have suggested Chinese Merchants Group is interested in a stake in the Asciano terminals but Asciano itself (which is publicly listed) has not identified the potential buyer.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Asciano\u2019s John Mullen has pointed to the potential for strategic partnerships with a global player. He commented: \u201cIf we can get some strategic benefit by teaming up with a global player who brings a lot more than just giving us a cheque for X% of the equity \u2013 if we can team up with someone who then gives us global customer relationships, global procurement \u2013 all of those sorts of things, then that&#8217;s quite attractive to us.\u201d Asciano gave no assurance that an agreement will be reached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port operator Asciano has confirmed it is talking with third parties over potentially selling a slice of its Patrick Terminals and Logistics division.<\/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":[55],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oceania"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9117"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}