FIRST IN PI: The entity that oversees Panama’s shipping registry and ports has added new lobbying firepower with ties to President Donald Trump as he doubles down on a pressure campaign targeting the ...

National security concerns In June 2021, the Panama Maritime Authority revoked a 2016 concession granted to China-based Landbridge Group to build the Panama Canal Container Port terminal in Colón ...

We gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back." Thus spoke Donald Trump shortly after BlackRock, an American investment firm ...

By Alek Buttermann Panama has moved to impose stricter rules on ship-to-ship (STS) oil transfers in response to growing ...

followed by China. Hutchinson Ports said audits a few years ago by the office of the comptroller, which oversees public spending, and the Panama Maritime Authority, found the company was in "full ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is confronting a fresh diplomatic dilemma with China: How to fulfill a pledge to regain ...

The Panama Maritime Authority renewed Hutchison's 25-year concession ... a knowledgeable actor such as the People's Republic of China, its companies, and agents could temporarily shut down the ...

China dispatched a high-level delegation ... The $22.8 billion sale by CK Hutchison must still be approved by the Panama Maritime Authority and is under review.

The Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) and Panama’s main maritime ... in route to Qingdao, China. On July 1, the vessel completed its return trip through the Expanded Canal’s Neopanamax Locks ...

The 82-km (51-mile) waterway's construction was completed by the U.S. in 1914, and since its return to the Central American nation in 1999, it has been controlled by the Panama Canal Authority ...

President Trump’s claim that China controls the Panama Canal ... According to the Panama Maritime Authority, Hutchison’s ports last year served vessels carrying 39 percent of the cargo ...

The Chinese government has signaled its unhappiness with the deal, and China's antitrust officials ... its 25-year contract with the Panama Maritime Authority in 2021 and failed to share 10% ...