Shanghai Zhenhua denies posing cybersecurity risk to US ports

Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) mentioned on Sunday its cranes don’t pose a cybersecurity risk, after U.S. congressional committees questioned the Chinese language state-owned firm’s work on cranes sure for the USA.

The Home of Representatives safety panels, scrutinising ZPMC’s set up of Swiss engineering group ABB’s tools onto U.S.-bound ship-to-shore cranes, in January invited ABB executives to public hearings to make clear its relationship with ZPMC, which they mentioned raised “important issues”.

“ZPMC takes the U.S. issues significantly and believes that these studies can simply mislead the general public with out ample factual evaluation,” it mentioned in a submitting, referring to the probe by the Homeland Safety and Strategic Competitors committees.

“The cranes offered by ZPMC don’t pose a cybersecurity danger to any ports,” it mentioned.

ABB has mentioned it offered its management and electrification tools to many crane producers, together with Chinese language corporations, which in flip offered cranes on to U.S. ports.

The U.S. and China, the world’s largest economies, ceaselessly accuse one another of cyberattacks and industrial espionage. Washington this 12 months mentioned it had disrupted a Chinese language cyber-spying operation focusing on U.S. infrastructure and was investigating Chinese language car imports for nationwide safety dangers. It beforehand barred Chinese language telecom corporations.

ZPMC mentioned the cranes it provides are utilized in ports world wide, together with the USA, and adjust to worldwide requirements and relevant legal guidelines and laws.

Listed on the Shanghai inventory trade, ZPMC is among the largest port equipment producers on the earth, proudly owning a fleet of greater than 20 transportation vessels, in response to its web site.

ABB generates 16% of its gross sales from China, second solely to the U.S. market at 24%.