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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Hong Kong firm seeks $2 billion over Panama's takeover of 2 key canal ports

Panama Canal - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

A subsidiary of a Hong Kong-based company that has lost control of two critical ports on the Panama Canal said it is seeking $2 billion of compensation in damages from Panama over its “illegal” takeover of the ports.

Panama Ports Company, a unit of Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison Holdings, said in a Friday statement that it is demanding the sum under international arbitration proceedings that it had already started.

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