PSA International, Singapore's state-backed port operator, paid $4.4 billion for a fifth of Hong Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings, the world's biggest port operator.
His only holding there is DP World, a worldwide port operator.
Protesters have mainly targeted two west coast companies: port operator SSA Marine and grain exporter EGT.
[C7.] Dubai Raises Offer for British Port Operator The emirate of Dubai raised its offer for Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation, the British port operator, to £3.88 billion ($6.9 billion), topping an offer made earlier yesterday by PSA International of Singapore.
Among them were Hamburger Hafen und Logistik, a German port operator, and Pronova BioPharma, a Norwegian pharmaceutical company.
In 2006 the couple worked together on issues related to a Dubai firm's purchase of a United States port operator.
He left the Bloomberg administration in 2005 to be the chief executive of American Stevedoring, a port operator.
He asserts that the port operator merely "oversees the coming and going of ships, making sure they are properly loaded and offloaded in the most cost-effective manner".
Known as the Port of Singapore Authority before it "corporatized" in 1997 (it remains state-owned), PSA is the world's largest container port operator.
The company purchased P & O Ports, a subsidiary of a British port operator and the joint operator, along with A. P. Moller-Maersk, of the Port Newark terminal.
Ward, left, commissioner of the city's Department of Environmental Protection, is leaving to become president and chief executive of American Stevedoring, a port operator, city officials said yesterday.
