SPECIAL REPORT Ӏ TECHNOLOGY THREATS
Swiss mining equipment company ABB. Sometimes that software is installed in the Chinese-made cranes once they have been erected at their US seaport, but more often it is installed in China, by Chinese technicians, while the crane is under construction. It is at this stage that some in
the US fear that alterations could be made to it. In January this year security panels at the US House of Representatives scrutinising ZPMC’s installation of ABB software invited ABB executives to public hearings to clarify its relationship with ZPMC which, they said, raised "significant concerns.” ABB has issued a statement on the matter. “ABB’s crane software technology is supplier- independent and installed on
cranes manufactured by major crane builders including Chinese companies,” it said. “These cranes are bought by US ports from Chinese and other companies, not from ABB.”
ZMPC has also issued a statement. It says its cranes do not pose a cybersecurity threat, after US congressional committees questioned the Chinese state- owned company's work on cranes bound for the United States.
INVESTING IN AMERICA Another aspect of the Executive Order is public and clear. Part of it is intended to remove the nation’s dependence on Chinese- manufactured cranes. Biden is to spend $20 billion over five years to bring ship-to-shore crane manufacturing back on shore, to
the US; he is using the President’s Investing in America agenda as an avenue for this. Companies have already
responded to that move. Container handling equipment specialist Paceco Corporation, which is a US-based subsidiary of Japanese Mitsui E&S, is planning to return manufacturing to onshore United States for the first time in 30 years. Paceco has a long history in the container shipping sector. It manufactured the first ship-to- shore dedicated container crane in 1958, and it continued its US-based crane manufacturing until the late 1980s. It is seeking to partner with other trusted manufacturing companies pending the final site as well as partner selection in the US.
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