The Panama Canal Authority chief dismissed President-elect Trump’s claims that China is controlling the trade route and criticized his comments about fees. Ricaurte Vásquez Morales told The Wall Street Journal that Trump’s accusations that China is running the Panama Canal are “unfounded.

US President-elect Donald Trump's suggestion that US ships get preferential rates will violate the neutrality treaty, inte

Granting Trump's demand for US ships passing through the Panama Canal to get preferential treatment would "lead to chaos," the waterway's leader said.

GRANTING Donald Trump’s demand for US ships passing through the Panama Canal to get preferential treatment would “lead to chaos,” the head of the authority running the waterway said on Wednesday. Read more at The Business Times.

The canal executive said China doesn’t control route and U.S. ships can’t get better rates than others.

The CEO of the Panama Canal Authority rejected the demands of President-elect Donald Trump, who escalated a conflict over the vital trade passage at a Mar-a-Lago press conference on Tuesday. Trump has repeatedly claimed that Panama charges American vessels “exorbitant prices” to travel through the waterway,

The leader of the Panama Canal Authority denied President-elect Donald Trump’s claims that China is controlling the vital trade route and said Trump’s suggestion that U.S. ships get preferential rates “will lead to chaos.