Tata Steel will explore finding a new partner for the asset and a partial sale of assets in Europe, Koushik Chatterjee, the chief financial officer of Tata Steel said on a conference call with media on Friday.

The company also remains committed to de-leveraging the balance sheet of the European business, Chatterjee said.

(Reporting by Promit Mukherjee; Editing by Euan Rocha)