Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino rejected President-elect Trump’s claims of Chinese interference and high fees to use the Panama Canal. The post Panama’s president rejects Trump’s claim of Chinese interference at canal appeared first on FreightWaves.

President Mulino said the ‘canal is Panamanian and there’s no possibility of opening any kind of conversation around this reality’.

Panama's President Jose Raul Mulino on Thursday ruled out negotiations with United States President-elect Donald Trump over control of the Panama Canal, denying that China was interfering in its operation.