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Chinese Firms Now Hold Stakes In Over A Dozen European Ports China’s Port Investing Spree
Chinese companies are investing in ports around the world.
Here are more than a dozen in the Mediterranean and Europe in which the Chinese state-owned enterprises COSCO Shipping Ports and China Merchants Port Holdings have acquired stakes.
Locations below correspond to port cities.
In the past decade, Chinese companies have acquired stakes in 13 ports in Europe, including in Greece, Spain and, most recently, Belgium, according to a study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Those ports handle about 10 percent of Europe’s shipping container capacity.
NPR