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Ship containers are stacked at the Panama Canal Balboa port, operated by the Panama Ports Company, in Panama City, July 29, 2025. (AP Photo\/Matias Delacroix, File)<\/p>\n
A subsidiary of Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison<\/a> said Wednesday\u00a0it filed an arbitration against shipping giant Maersk<\/a>, accusing the Danish group seeking to replace its operations in the Panama<\/a> Canal.<\/p>\n The Panama Ports Company said in a statement that Maersk broke a contract by siding with Panamanian authorities in a dispute over the waterway that saw a court annul in January the PPC’s rights to manage two key ports.<\/p>\n “Maersk undermined the contract and aligned with the Republic of Panama in connection with its State campaign against PPC and scheme to replace it through a takeover that installed new port operators,” the company said.<\/p>\n The arbitration will be held in London, PPC said, adding that the claim against Maersk is separate from “ongoing steps by PPC to hold Panama to account for its anti-contract and anti-investor conduct.”<\/p>\n The PPC said that since the takeover in January, a Maersk-affiliated port operator has utilized PPC facilities and information under a “pre-arranged concession contract” to manage the Balboa terminal.<\/p>\n Panama declared in February that a Maersk subsidiary, APM Terminals, would operate the port of Balboa, and that Terminal Investment Limited, owned by the logistics giant MSC, would manage the port of Cristobal.<\/p>\n The PPC filed a lawsuit opposing the suspension of its Panama Canal operations in February, and announced a month later it was seeking at least $2 billion in damages.<\/p>\n Panama has been caught up in broader tensions between the United States and China, with President Donald Trump last year claiming, without evidence, that China effectively runs the canal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONG KONG Ship containers are stacked at the Panama Canal Balboa port, operated by the Panama Ports Company,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[224],"tags":[4166,245,3375],"class_list":["post-60582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-maersk","tag-ck-hutchison","tag-maersk","tag-panama"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116402289742492481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60582","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=60582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}