China slammed the Hong Kong-based firm for portraying the agreement as “purely commercial in nature” and condemned the pact ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her government would review tariffs on Chinese imports. Venezuela boosted oil ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Cranes load a cargo ship at the Panama Canal’s Balboa Port in ...

Hutchison’s Panama Ports company has been the only firm that manages terminals on both sides of the canal: the Balboa port on the Pacific entrance to the canal and the Cristóbal terminal on the ...

The deal would shift control of the strategic ports of Balboa and Cristobal into American ... Some policymakers argue that Chinese port operators could monitor US ship movements or use the ...

which owns and operates the ports of Balboa and Cristobal on opposite ends ... The Hong Kong company’s port operations involved loading and unloading cargo and providing fuel.

"The administration of the Balboa port opposed the construction of other ports in the Pacific and introduced multiple lawsuits that halted the construction of the Corozal port," he said.