LA/LB and Tanjung Pelepas celebrate as 2024 port 'winners and losers' revealed
**EDITED AT 14:00 BST 02/04/25 TO INCLUDE QUOTE FROM ANTWERP-BRUGES** Last year’s port throughput “winners and ...
Is Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPHT) on the way to snatching victory from the jaws of defeat?
That’s a totally fair question.
And a very reasonable answer is a resounding yes.
Background
The 2011 Hutchison announcement that it would hive off its Hong Kong and Pearl River Delta terminals and list them as a trust on the Singapore Exchange – a major capital markets highlight then – raised quite a few eyebrows in the Lloyd’s List newsroom (where this correspondent worked at the time).
The editor, the late ...
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