US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday the Panama Canal faces ongoing threats from China but that together the United States and Panama will keep it secure.

A subsidiary of a Hong Kong conglomerate, which is embroiled in U.S.-China tensions over its Panama Canal port assets has denied allegations that it had failed to pay about $1.2 billion to the Central

Danish shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk purchased the Panama Canal Railway, which is an essential link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing's company, CK Hutchison, has paused a deal to sell its Panama Canal port operations to a BlackRock-led group due to pressure from Beijing. The deal, valued over $19 billion,

BlackRock could hit another roadblock in its attempt to secure control of two flagship ports near the Panama Canal once the Central American country releases an audit on a 25-year concession granted to Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison .

With the acquisition of the Panama Canal Railway Company, APM Terminals, the port company of the AP Moller-Maersk Group, is expanding its intermodal network. The strategically important rail line connects the Atlantic and Pacific and complements the Danish shipping company's global logistics services.

Jamaica stands at a critical geopolitical crossroads, caught in the crushing vise of an intensifying hegemonic struggle between the United States and China.

HONG KONG] CK Hutchison Holdings shares extended declines on Wednesday (Apr 9), erasing all their advances since the company agreed to sell its Panama Canal port assets to a BlackRock-led consortium last month.

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has approved a public tender for the construction and operation of an 80-kilometer (50-mile) interoceanic gas pipeline along the isthmus.