CHANCAY, Peru (AP) — Dozens of cranes lift blocks weighing several tons and drop them to compact the soil of a roughly one-square-mile area on Peru’s Pacific coast, part of China’s most ambitious port project in Latin America designed to facilitate trade between the regions. The port of Chancay, 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of the Peruvian capital of Lima, will be “the gateway from South America to Asia,” said Mario de las Casas, institutional affairs manager of COSCO Shipping, a Chinese state
CHANCAY, Peru — Dozens of cranes lift blocks weighing several tons and drop them to compact the soil of a roughly one-square-mile area on Peru’s Pacific coast, part of China’s most ambitious port project in Latin America designed to facilitate trade between the regions.
De las Casas said the $1.3 billion project will offer a direct route to China with a travel time reduction for ships of 10 days. COSCO officials say ships traveling from South America to China normally take more than 45 days with stops in Central America, Mexico or the United States. De las Casas said the port is part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. “China has been investing in infrastructure and logistics around the world for years. There are ports in Greece, in Spain, in Africa, all over the world."
Kardon, formerly an adjunct professor at the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute, said “Chancay is a strategic investment for COSCO, China’s largest and most globally competitive state-owned shipping company.”
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