Private equity firm Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) is reportedly in talks to acquire 49% of the capital of the Malaysian port group MMC Port Holdings (MMC Ports). This was announced by the news agency "Reuters" specifying that the potential deal would award the company Malaysian worth 30 billion ringgit ($6.4 billion) and the transaction valued at approximately $3.1 billion.

Among the different sectors in which it operates, GIF is present in the transport sector through shareholdings in leading companies as well as in the port sector through a 35% stake in the terminal operator Terminal group Investment Limited (TiL) controlled by the shipping group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). The latter, in Italy, is recently became a partner of GIP, acquiring 50% of the capital of the Italo railway company - Nuovo Trasporto Travellers, which resulted in a reduction from 72.6% to 35% of GIP's stake in the company's share capital.