{"id":151212,"date":"2026-02-27T18:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/?post_type=news&#038;p=151212"},"modified":"2026-02-25T19:27:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:27:58","slug":"panama-vydvoryla-spivrobitnykiv-kytajskoyi-ck-hutchison-iz-portiv","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/news\/panama-vydvoryla-spivrobitnykiv-kytajskoyi-ck-hutchison-iz-portiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Panama Expels CK Hutchison Staff from Canal Ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"55\" data-end=\"325\">Hong Kong conglomerate <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">CK Hutchison<\/span><\/span> said on Tuesday that Panamanian authorities threatened its employees with criminal prosecution unless they left two key ports along the Panama Canal, according to <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Reuters<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"327\" data-end=\"531\">The move followed a ruling by the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Supreme Court of Panama<\/span><\/span>, which annulled the contracts of CK Hutchison\u2019s subsidiary, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Panama Ports Company<\/span><\/span>, to operate the terminals.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"533\" data-end=\"661\">Washington and Beijing have been contesting influence over the strategic waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"663\" data-end=\"792\">Law enforcement officers removed CK Hutchison employees from their workplaces and barred them from contacting company management.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"794\" data-end=\"855\">CK Hutchison said it considers the court\u2019s decision unlawful.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"857\" data-end=\"1017\">The <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Panama Maritime Authority<\/span><\/span> assumed control of the Balboa and Cristobal ports to prevent operational disruptions following the court\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1019\" data-end=\"1356\">The Panamanian government granted temporary concessions to operate the Balboa terminal to <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">APM Terminals Panama<\/span><\/span>, a subsidiary of <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Maersk<\/span><\/span>. Operations in Cristobal will be handled by <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">TIL Panama<\/span><\/span>, which is part of <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">MSC<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1358\" data-end=\"1473\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">China\u2019s Foreign Ministry said Beijing intends to firmly safeguard the lawful rights and interests of its companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":151213,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-151212","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/151212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=151212"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=151212"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=151212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}