The building is the headquarters of Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing, who owns strike-hit port operator Hong Kong International Terminals.
Hongkong International Terminals has said the striking workers are hired by subcontractors and aren't directly employed by the port operator.
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Assuming the deal goes through, it will create the world's largest container port operator, overtaking Hong Kong's Hutchison Ports .
Hutchinson Port Holdings, the port operator owned by Mr Li, said it would now "focus on restoring the port to its full operational capabilities".
Neither Istithmar nor the city-state's profitable port operator DP World, which Bin Sulayem also chairs, are paying for the project, he said.
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Shenzen Chiwan, a port operator and transportation services company located in southeastern China, has increased sales by double digits for the last five years.
China Merchants Holdings, the country's largest publicly traded container port operator, said volumes this year may exceed 2008's level, according to a recent Bloomberg report.
Among the newly minted billionaires is port operator Enrique Razon Jr.
In April fund manager Laura Geritz spent five days in Chile and Argentina touring a hospital, a port operator, a grocery store and a sporting goods retailer.
Rocking the boat is Singapore port operator PSA International , which confirmed today that it has put in a bid for British shipping company that could scuttle Dubai's.
Its 29 ports around the world would help Singapore's PSA, the second-biggest container port operator in the world, to gain ground on the industry leader, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.
Its 29 ports around the world would help Singapore's PSA, the second-biggest container port operator in the world, to gain ground on the industry leader, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. of Hong Kong.
The MAIB report also criticised port operator Clydeport.
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Rowe Price New Asia Fund, which FORBES rates a "B" in bull markets but a "D" in down markets, likes International Container Terminal Services, a port operator with headquarters in the Philippines and with other holdings in places as far-flung as Poland and Brazil.
On July 1, 2011 seven days after the U.S. action and almost seven months before the EU sanctions against Tidewater went into effect the port operator registered a new company named Faraz Royal Qeshm LLC, and put it in charge of the container terminal.
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The Conservative MP for Dover, Charlie Elphicke, said as an alternative to the privatisation plans the port could be owned by a community trust, made up of local representatives which would lease the port to an operator.
Through one of his subsidiary companies, Bollore Africa Logistics, Vincent Bollore is already the largest private operator of port concessions in Africa, with operations spanning 41 countries including Nigeria, Kenya and Ethiopia.
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But "if the Coast Guard boarding officer were to conduct a vessel safety inspection under normal circumstances and see that many people on board a boat that size, they would definitely recommend that the operator probably return to port and offload some of them, " Mr. McKenzie said.
In Canada, the port of Prince Rupert is about to announce a deal with an international terminal operator to invest several hundred million Canadian dollars to allow its rudimentary facilities to handle Asian container trade, says the port's chief executive, Don Krusel.
Dubai Ports World is selling its interest in six U.S. port terminal operations it acquired in a deal for a U.K.-based terminal operator earlier this year.
The operator of a ship used to export livestock from the UK has applied to sail from the Port of Dover.
Geng's company, operator of 250 kilometers of toll roads that link mainland dynamo Shanghai, Hangzhou and the booming port of Ningbo, recently reported a 30% profit increase last year.
The operator said passengers due to make return journeys on Saturday or Sunday were advised to arrive at the Port of Calais or Port of Dover where their return travel would be honoured by other cross-channel operators.
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