Peru governor touts Chinese interest in deep-water port pitched as Chancay alternative

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Arequipa’s governor says foreign companies, including Chinese, US and Indian investors, have expressed interest in a planned US$844 million deep-water port in southern Peru. The regional government and state investment agency Proinversion are promoting the project as an alternative to the Chancay port.

A planned US$844 million port in southern Peru has drawn interest from several foreign investors, including Chinese companies, a regional governor said on Monday, as the government began promoting the project abroad. “Several companies have approached us. We have investors from the US, China and India who are very interested,” Rohel Sanchez, the governor of Arequipa, told reporters after signing an agreement with the state investment agency Proinversion. He said firms from Turkey and the...