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DP World Australia, one of the country's largest port operators, said operations had resumed at all its facilities after a cyber security incident forced it to suspend operations for three days.

The breach disabled operations at the company, which manages about 40% of the goods that flow in and out of Australia, affecting its container terminals in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Western Australia's Fremantle.

"Operations resumed at the company's ports across Australia at 9 a.m. today (2200 GMT, Sunday) ... following successful tests of key systems overnight," the company, part of Dubai's state-owned DP World, said in a statement.

DP World expects to move about 5,000 containers from the four Australian terminals through the day. However, ongoing investigations and responses to protect its networks…