China’s state-owned shipping conglomerate Cosco is seeking a stake of at least 20-30 per cent in a $23bn ports deal that involves key assets in the Panama Canal, as Beijing tries to rewrite the terms of a sale that was hailed by US President Donald Trump.
The Chinese group is demanding a large stake after an exclusive negotiating window for BlackRock and Swiss-Italian shipping group MSC expired, according to two people familiar with the talks.
The two companies were originally set to form a consortium to buy 43 ports, including two in Panama, from Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s CK Hutchison.
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