Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPH Trust), the quoted terminalista society to the Stock exchange of Singapore that is under responsibility of Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) of the Hutchison Whampoa group di Hong Kong and that work container terminal in the ports of Hong Kong (HIT and COSCO-HIT) and of Shenzhen (Yantian International Terminals Container) let alone some fluvial terminals and logistic services, today has undersigned an agreement through the society integrally controlled Champion Rings Ltd. in order to buy the entire capital stock of the terminalista society Asia Container Terminals Holdings Ltd. (ACT Holdings), with center in the Islands Cayman, for approximately 3,17 billion dollars of Hong Kong (USA 408 million dollars).
ACT Holdings, that it is controlled by the DP World group of Dubay with a participation pairs to the 55.16% of the capital stock, manages and has the property of the container 8 terminals West in the harbour area Kwai Chung di Hong Kong within a contract of concession with the 30 expiration june 2047. The terminal is equipped of two docks for 740 linear meters of approaches and a depth of the -15,5 backdrop meters. Last year the terminal has enlivened a traffic pairs to 1,0 million container teu regarding 1,1 million teu in 2011 and to 1,2 million teu in 2010.While same the DP World has signed an agreement with the bottom Goodman Hong Kong Logistics Fund (GHKLF) of the Australian group Goodman in order to yield own participation pairs to it to the 75% in CSX World Terminals Hong Kong Ltd. (CT3), the society (of which currently DP World it stops the 66.66%) that it manages terminal 3 in the same harbour area Kwai Chung di Hong Kong, and in ATL Logistics Centre Hong Kong Ltd. (ATL), the bordering logistics center to the CT3, for total USA 463 million dollars. According to the forecasts, the transaction will be completed within the first half of this year.Commenting today the cessions in the port of Hong Kong agreed by DP World, the president of the terminalista group of Dubay, Ahmed bin Sulayem, have emphasized that continuous DP World considers that Hong Kong to constitute a extremely interesting market, "however - it has specified - the constitution of partnership a strategic and partial monetizzazione of some assets allows us to realize value and to re-use capital in new opportunities in fast increase in other markets" .