[P-40]

and that clearly identified the deal as one involving the sale of a company that held operating contracts for gantry cranes at various terminals where they load/unload container ships.


That does sound like what the WSJ had been reporting for months. Current stories include other operations that you would think would be bigger news.

[muawiyah]

It was, at the price being paid, a chump change deal (in that particular industry). I fear that folks today have no concept of what a billion dollars buys ~ 'tain't all that much when it comes to buying cranes built out on a mud flat next to a ditch full of water.