The Panama Canal Authority chief said giving preferential treatment to one country's ships would lead to "chaos."
Giving US ships preferential rates to navigate the Panama Canal would "lead to chaos," the head of the canal authority said.
AD"Rules are rules — and there are no exceptions," Ricaurte Vásquez Morales told The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
ADThose charges "apply to all ships from around the world and there are no exceptions," Vásquez Morales told the Journal.
The 51-mile Panama Canal was officially opened in 1914, creating a new trade route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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