Panama denied the free crossing of American ships through this channel
reports Mehr News Agency Quoted Economics Times , Panama’s recent White House claims about the country’s free US ships from the channel Panama rejected and declared that no change in transit costs has been implemented.
US State Department earlier in a statement that the country’s government ships can now be now at the Panama Channel Passage and as a result, millions of dollars will benefit the US government annually.
However, Panama Channel officials responded to the Panama Channel Supervision Organization in a statement that the entity “authority to determine tolls and other costs for traffic. The ships have made of this channel and no changes to these tolls and costs have been made. ”
US President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to take control of this important business corridor. Panama’s 2 -km channel crosses the country in Central America and is the main communication bridge between the Atlantic and the Pacific.
Marco Rubio , US Secretary of State who traveled to Latin American countries these days, from Panama has sought to apply “immediate change” about what has been called “China’s influence and control over this channel”.
more than 6,000 ships crossing this channel annually and through the long and costly nose Horn Avoid.
