{"id":106422,"date":"2026-06-12T10:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/106422\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:49:22","slug":"china-orders-maersk-and-msc-to-halt-operations-at-panama-canal-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/106422\/","title":{"rendered":"China orders Maersk and MSC to halt operations at Panama Canal ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maersk and MSC were told not to, &#8220;engage in illegal activities that harm the interests of Chinese companies, and to uphold commercial ethics and international rules,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Panama has granted temporary 18-month concessions to keep the terminals operating, with APM Terminals, a unit of Maersk, managing Balboa and TIL Panama, a unit of MSC, handling Cristobal.<\/p>\n<p>CK Hutchison has faced <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/shipping\/ports\/despicable-china-lashes-out-at-ck-hutchison-for-ports-sale-to-us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">heavy criticism from China<\/a> since unveiling a plan in March 2025 to sell 43 ports in 23 countries, including the Balboa and Crist\u00f3bal ports, to a group led by BlackRock and Italian Gianluigi Aponte&#8217;s family-run shipping firm MSC.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Editing by Sonia Cheema and Subhranshu Sahu)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maersk and MSC were told not to, &#8220;engage in illegal activities that harm the interests of Chinese companies,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[224],"tags":[2003,3918,174,31652,26,71,5340,3662,245,9280,1603,3375,8522,1158,4505,76],"class_list":["post-106422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-maersk","tag-asia","tag-blackrock","tag-china","tag-ck-hutchison-group","tag-denmark","tag-europe","tag-hong-kong","tag-latin-america","tag-maersk","tag-msc","tag-north-america","tag-panama","tag-panama-canal","tag-politics","tag-switzerland","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116736751544008958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}