CSAV Gathers Experts to Discuss Geopolitics and Security in Global Trade
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Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV) held the fifth edition of its Global Trade Day under the title 'Chile Facing the New Order,' an event that brought together authorities, international experts, and representatives of the port and shipping industry to analyze how geopolitical and security factors are increasingly shaping global value chains, as well as the logistical and infrastructure challenges facing Chile.
Trade resilience despite disruptions
At the opening, CSAV chairman Óscar Hasbún noted that despite recent disruptions such as the pandemic, the closure of key routes like the Suez Canal, and tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, international trade has not retreated but has instead shown remarkable resilience between 2020 and 2025. According to Hasbún, during that period global trade grew at a rate higher than global GDP, while Portal Portuario specified that world GDP rose 20% and global trade grew 24% over the same span.
Geopolitical realignment of trade flows
The keynote speaker, Pol Antràs, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, warned that the rapid pace of globalization seen between 1980 and 2000 will not be repeated in the short term, and noted that trade flows are increasingly being reorganized based on the geopolitical alignment between countries. For Chile, he recommended reducing the vulnerabilities stemming from its high trade concentration, diversifying sectors and markets, moving up the value chain, and protecting critical areas such as ports, mining, and data.
Friendshoring and market diversification
The Undersecretary for International Economic Relations, Paula Estévez, highlighted the growing importance of 'friendshoring,' based on trust-based relationships and shared visions of rules-based trade, and expressed optimism regarding ongoing negotiations with the United States, India, the Philippines, Morocco, Bangladesh, and Jordan to diversify Chile's trade destinations. In this context, Estévez also noted that 53% of Chilean export products currently enter the United States duty-free, and that the goal of the bilateral negotiation is to expand that share, although she ruled out a return to full zero tariffs following the surtax imposed by the Trump administration.
U.S. investment and relations with China
The U.S. Ambassador to Chile, Brandon Judd, described Chile as a strategic partner and stated that his country is evaluating investments worth several billion dollars in port expansions, data centers, artificial intelligence, and other technologies. Judd also clarified that Washington does not oppose Chile trading with China, though he called for safeguarding sovereignty in critical infrastructure projects, citing the case of the port of Chancay in Peru as an example.
Port infrastructure and organized crime
On the logistics front, the chairman of the Chilean Chamber of Shipping and Ports (Camport), Daniel Fernández, proposed that tenders be triggered according to actual demand and warned that the main gap lies in land access to ports and in the need for agencies such as the SAG and Customs to operate continuously. The day closed with a panel on security and organized crime in the logistics chain, which identified as urgent the need to achieve interoperability and real-time data sharing, equip Customs and ports with mass inspection technology, and set common minimum border security standards.
