The President of the United States Donald Trump celebrated an agreement led by American society Blackrock to purchase most of the port activities of Hong Kong Ck Hutchison conglomerate, evaluated at $ 22.8 billion, including activities throughout the Panama channel.
The agreement will give the Consortium of the United States the control of the fundamental ports on the Panama channel among the appeals of the White House to remove them from what claims to be Chinese property. But there is also the risk of intensifying the tensions between us and Panama, which do not agree due to Trump’s statements on the channel.
“My government will resume the Panama channel and we have already started doing it,” Trump said at the congress last Tuesday.
“Today a large American company has announced that it is buying the two ports around the Panama channel and many other things that have to do with the Panama channel and some other channels”.
President Panamense Jose Raúl Mulino said in an X post on Wednesday morning that Trump “once again is lying”.
“The Panama channel is not about to be recovered … the channel is Panamenho and will continue to be Panamenho!”
The agreement with the BlackRock Consortium includes 90% of the Panama Ports Company, which managed the ports of Balboa and Cristóbal at each end of the channel for over two decades, according to CK Hutchison.
Last year, about 12,000 ships used the Panama channel, which connects 1,920 doors of 170 countries. Its position is strategic because more than three quarters of ships that cross the canal come from the United States or is intended for the United States territory.
Source: Terra
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