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Brookfield Infrastructure has undersigned a binding agreement in order to buy the Australian group Asciano
Confirmed the value of the transaction, that it will pile to beyond 6,7 billion dollars
August 18, 2015
The Canadian Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has announced of having undersigned, through the Brookfield Consortium in which they figure also its partner institutional, a binding agreement in order to acquire the entire capital stock of the harbour, railway group and logistic Asciano Australian ( on 3 July 2015). Brookfield has announced that the introduced offer is confirmed last month that assigns to Asciano a value of beyond 8,8 million dollars Australian (beyond USA 6,7 billion dollars).
The board of directors of the Asciano group has deliberated unanimously to exhort the shareholders to accept the offer. "This transaction - the managing director of Brookfield Infrastructure has emphasized from part its, Sam Pollock - allows us to acquire primaries infrastructures of transport in a geographic area that we know well and to establish two total platforms in the long term leader with solid perspectives. The combination of the container Australian terminals of Asiano with our current assets in North America and Europe - it has explained - offers to the base for a platform total container to us".
The Asciano group, through the Patrick branch, is the main Australian harbour terminalista in the field of the container managing terminals that have a annual ability to traffic pairs to 4,9 million teu. In Australia the group Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is present also in the harbour field through the participation of control in the Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal (DBCT), society that manages one of the main terminals for the coal export in the port of Hay Point, in the Queensland. Moreover the main investments of Brookfield Infrastructures in the harbour field are localized in Europe, where it mainly manages 19 harbour terminals in the continental area through the controlled Euroports and other terminals in the United Kingdom, between which the port in deep waters Teesport, through the controlled PD Ports, in America North, through participation in container terminal in the ports of Los Angeles and Oakland, and in China, where it is present in two harbour terminals.
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The Canadian Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has announced of having undersigned, through the Brookfield Consortium in which they figure also its partner institutional, a binding agreement in order to acquire the entire capital stock of the harbour, railway group and logistic Asciano Australian 
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