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China Eyes Secret Mega-Port to Bypass Panama Canal and Shatter U.S. Control Over Western Hemisphere Trade
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/ ^ | Jun. 10, 2025 | Jason Sullivan

Posted on 06/10/2025 7:59:10 PM PDT by bitt

Source: Unleashed.news

If China secures the CopiaPort-E project, it would turbocharge Beijing’s trade in South America—not only enabling CHINAMAX megaships, but allowing all shipping to completely bypass U.S.-controlled chokepoints and dominate hemispheric commerce virtually overnight.

A geopolitical storm is brewing on the western edge of South America—and the United States cannot afford to look away. At the heart of it all lies a deep-water mega-port project in Chile’s Atacama Desert: CopiaPort-E, a port so naturally engineered by geography itself that it could become either America’s greatest commercial and strategic opportunity, or China’s most dangerous economic beachhead south of our border.

If the Trump Administration seizes this moment, the U.S. can ensure that this asset is developed with American interests at the forefront—safeguarding our supply chains, trade routes, and strategic naval positioning. If we hesitate, however, China will not. And they are already moving fast.

CopiaPort-E sits along the Punta Cachos peninsula, directly on the Pacific coast. What makes this location a “world rarity,” as port experts have described it, is its natural breakwater extending 8 kilometers into the sea and its natural seabed depths exceeding 30 meters—no dredging needed. This alone makes it the only location in all of South America capable of receiving CHINAMAX and CAPESIZE-class supertankers—ships that carry 80% more cargo than standard vessels, but cannot pass through either the Panama or Suez Canals.

Strategically, CopiaPort-E also sits right at a critical bend of the Pan-American Highway, which provides the shortest and most direct land routes to both southern Brazil and Argentina. This land-sea synergy means the port would serve as a high-efficiency hub for transcontinental trade, connecting the Pacific with the Atlantic faster than any other corridor in South America.

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KEYWORDS: america; argentina; atacamadesert; brazil; capesizeclass; chile; china; chinamax; copiaporte; copiaporteproject; maritimesecurity; megaportproject; pacific; panamacanal; panamericanhighway; port; ports; puntacachos; puntacachospeninsula; secretmegaport; shipping; southamerica; supertankers; tankers

1 posted on 06/10/2025 7:59:10 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 06/10/2025 7:59:24 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

It’s New!


3 posted on 06/10/2025 8:15:43 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: bitt

Hopefully, Brazil develops the ability to meet almost all its own needs.


4 posted on 06/10/2025 8:29:13 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: bitt

Oh my God, we’re dead.

/sarc


5 posted on 06/10/2025 8:54:57 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: bitt

It’s quite a distance from the port of Chancay, on the Pacific, all the way across Brazil to Villa Do Conde, on the Atlantic.


6 posted on 06/10/2025 9:24:24 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: bitt

If this is what I think it is then the US was offered the chance to develop this years ago. They turned it down.


7 posted on 06/10/2025 11:17:15 PM PDT by Revel
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To: bitt

Greenpeace will go bonkers over the environmental destruction that will result from building such a port.


8 posted on 06/11/2025 12:39:55 AM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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To: bitt

A geopolitical storm is brewing on the western edge of South America...
The Bee strikes again.


9 posted on 06/11/2025 3:01:07 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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***It’s quite a distance from the port of Chancay, on the Pacific, all the way across Brazil to Villa Do Conde, on the Atlantic***

Also a hilly complex to cross commonly referred to as The Andes . . . then the Amazon jungles. Head hunters, comrade?

10 posted on 06/11/2025 6:14:28 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: rfp1234; bitt

No.

Because this would a Chinese development, a Chinese-cabable port (eventually) servicing Brazil and Argentina by rail and highways (both built by Chinese copies of American and European tools and equipment), Greenpeace and its NGO-serviced professional promotion agencies will ..
. .. ignore it.

Because it hurts America and the general western Judeo-Christian capitalist culture.


11 posted on 06/11/2025 6:41:44 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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12 posted on 06/11/2025 6:47:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: bitt

This is the kind of crap that happens in our BACKYARD when the Neocons are running all over the world starting wars and trying to overthrow governments, particularly those with MASSIVE nuclear arsenals.


13 posted on 06/11/2025 7:13:31 AM PDT by BobL
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To: bitt

So what, Mexico is building a railroad to take some cargo from the Panama Canal also. The canal is backed up and slowing down trade.


14 posted on 06/11/2025 12:25:49 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: rfp1234

Let them whine, China doesn’t give a flip about that. And will happily kill anyone like them that gets in their way.


15 posted on 06/11/2025 12:27:07 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: bitt

Let’s go get it, who’s with me?
If so , we meet up on Monday on site.
Bring any construction equipment have.

We will have port James Monroe completed quickly and keep the ChiComs away .


16 posted on 06/11/2025 12:30:45 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (“I don’t really care, Margaret.”)
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