Li Ka-shing family's CK Hutchison to sell Panama port assets to BlackRock

After Trump pressure, Hong Kong conglomerate insists $22.8bn deal 'purely commercial'

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Cargo vessels dock at Balboa Port, operated by Panama Ports Company, under the Li Ka-shing family's CK Hutchison group. © Reuters

KENJI KAWASE

BEIJING -- CK Hutchison, the Hong Kong-based conglomerate owned by tycoon Li Ka-shing's family, has agreed to sell port assets including those at the Panama Canal, where U.S. President Donald Trump objected to what he described as Chinese control.

The transaction with a consortium led by U.S. investment firm BlackRock was announced close to midnight on Tuesday, on the eve of China's annual National People's Congress as well as Trump's first address to Congress of his second term in office.

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