The US Investors' Consortium, led by the BlackRock Investment Company, will buy the Panama Canal's Control Package, The Wall Street Journal writes.
The purchase of two Panama ports is estimated at $ 22.8 billion and includes more than 40 other ports around the world. However, it turned out that BlackRock's proposal is "very profitable." Hutchison will retain docks in Hong Kong and China. Several other Panama ports are operated by other companies, but after elected President, Donald Trump said that the United States may demand return to the Panama Canal if the current conditions for its use were not reconsidered.
He pointed out high customs duties for American ships. The United States has participated in the construction of the canal in the first half of the 20th century. The institution was transferred to Panama in 1977, and in 1999 he underwent full control of the country's authorities.
The United States's biggest concern is the control of Hong Kong's canal facilities. Panama President Jose Raul Mulino answered Trump that "every meter of the Panama canal belongs to Panama."
