The Panama Canal has spent in recent years with extreme weather, with the phenomenon of the child and the severe drought that leads to a crisis at water level. Now it is the trade war of President Trump that threatens the global trade gateway. The Panama Canal is a critical passage for the American east coast -bound freight control and is confronted with a potential business slump as a result of the Chinese rates of Trump and a rapid decline in produced goods ordered by American shippers.
Forty percent of all our container traffic ever travels through the Panama Channel Ever Year, and a total of $ 270 billion annually. The US and China are the best users of the Panama Canal, and the role in global shipping has increased in recent years due to the disruption of the global supply chains. The income of the Panama Channel Authority reached $ 3.38 billion last year, Evoid Drouckt conditions and sales have increased every year since 2017.
The uncertainty of the trade war and the rate of 145% of Trump on Chinese goods – who will affect goods that come Chin China according to data from Supply Chain Intellce Firm Project44, there is an increase of 300% in empty sailing (canceled freight barriers) from China to the United States since the so -called “Liberation Day” “since the so -called” “Liberation Day” “” from “since the so -called” “Liberation Day” “” “” “
West Brush ports in the US are already being hit and the impact on the ports on the east coast is expected, with the withdrawal into ships a result of the decrease in production orders for Chinese factories: less production manufactures in fewer sea containers for oceans.
For the trade route from Asia to North America East Coast, sea intelligence, you have remembered the cumulative blank capacity of 261,822 twenty feet equivalent units (Teus) in the past six weeks. This decreases in containers and ships can affect the income of Panamakanaal. The Panama Canal earns its money from the number of ship gangs and containers that move through the Waterweg.
“Because almost 75% of our position goes from or from the United States, every recession will affect the Panama channel worldwide or in the United States, “said Boris Moreno, Vice president of operations for the Panama Channel Authority. “That’s for sure.”
One of the ‘Seven Miracles of the Modern World’, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the channel is a lightning rod for controversy in recent years in the battle for global supremacy between the US and China. Trump you have claimed that the most important ports of the channels are controlled by China, and has threatened to re -confirm the American control over the channel, causing Panama accusing the charging of excessive rates. China, together with the government of Panama, has denied those claims.
State Secretary Marco Rubio and Minister of Defense Pete Hegesh both visited Panamanian government officials in recent months.
The American State Secretary Marco Rubio (L) talks to Panama Channel Authority manager Ricaurte Vasquez during a tour in the Miraflores locks of the Panama Canal in Panama City on 2 February 2025.
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“I think Panama has come to China and away from the United States for the past five years, “said Federal Maritime Comissaris Louis Sola earlier this year in an interview with CNBC.” I have seen China and Brazil take away $ 20 billion with direct direct contracts. We should definitely play there at least. “
Ricaurte Vasquez, manager of the Panama Canal Authority, says CNBC that with the US is the largest economy in the world, assessing Trump’s worries.
“What is said in Washington has consequences everywhere,” said Vasquez. “We try to stay cool, calm and collected.”
I added: “It is not true that we are run by the Chinese. It is not a treat that we distinguish percentages.
In March, an investment group led by the American company Black Rock announced that it was trying to buy two ports to Eithher End of the Channel, as well as about 40 others from Hong Kong -based CK Hutchison. The outcome of that deal remains unclear.
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