From Reuters
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell Plc said on Tuesday it would sell its downstream sales and marketing operations in some Pacific island nations to focus its regional portfolio on fewer, larger scale businesses.
Shell will sell its businesses in Fiji and Tonga to Total France SA , while its businesses in New Caledonia, Vanuatu and French Polynesia will be purchased by existing regional joint-venture partner Albert Moux and Partners.
The company said its businesses in the Cook Islands and the Solomon Islands would be the subject of a separate announcement.
“The divestment is consistent with Shell’s strategy of managing its portfolio to deliver maximum value to customers and shareholders,” said Shell in a statement, saying the businesses had a higher value to the purchasing companies given their differing management priorities and capital focus.
The sales agreements relate to Shell’s aviation, marine, lubricants, commercial fuels, distribution and retail businesses, and include a network of 65 retail service stations and 12 storage and distribution depots.
Shell has negotiated a bulk fuel supply agreement with each purchasing company for up to five years, while Albert Moux will continue to use the Shell brand at selected service stations under a licensing arrangement.
The company said the specific terms of the transactions are confidential but that they should settle in the coming months, subject to regulatory approvals.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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