My gosh!!! What a great find!!!
What P&O obviously had was a bidding war between two companies - both gov't owned ports operations management businesses.The only apparent difference being that one is Asian (Singapore) owned... but less obviously at a quick glance... and the other overtly, in-your-face Arab (UAE) owned.Thank you very much for providing this informatio and pinging me to it.
People who know something about ports, and port security, and port management are not panicking.