Terry O’Connor beams with the air of a proud parent at the 17 hectares of freshly reclaimed land lying fallow. The chief executive of the port of Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory has been handed the job of overseeing the ambitious expansion plans of China’s Landbridge Group, which in October paid A$506m (US$368m) for a 99-year lease to operate and develop the facility.
在17公頃新開(kāi)辟的處女地上,特里?奧康納(Terry O’Connor)的神情仿佛一位自豪的父親。這位澳大利亞北領(lǐng)地(Northern Territory)達(dá)爾文港的首席執(zhí)行官被授予了一項(xiàng)工作,即監(jiān)督中國(guó)嵐橋集團(tuán)(Landbridge)雄心勃勃的擴(kuò)張計(jì)劃。去年10月,該集團(tuán)支付5.06億澳元(約合3.68億美元)簽下了一份長(zhǎng)達(dá)99年的租約,運(yùn)營(yíng)和開(kāi)發(fā)達(dá)爾文港。