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The megaport can be analyzed from a geopolitical perspective and also from the perspective of companies in a very particular sector. Here's what we're talking about.
The port of Chancay has become a key piece, even beyond the export sector. What other types of companies are anticipating its impact?
First, we must consider that the port, whose majority partner is the Chinese company Cosco Shipping Ports Limited (with a 60% stake), was built with the promise of becoming a new logistics hub for the region.
However, it has also become a point of geopolitical controversy.
"Chancay is growing, it's an opportunity, but it has become an issue of international politics for Peru. We now have a United States very interested in investing in Peru to counteract Chancay in many cases," said Erika Schoch, strategic consultant marine for Latin America and the Caribbean at Gallagher Re.
"Logistics in Peru could be changing. If we have a port in the north of the country that will allow fruit and vegetable exports, such as asparagus, to depart directly from there, then, how wonderful. It's great for clients (of insurers and reinsurers). We (as companies in the insurance sector) also have to first see who will insure that port. Second, how those vessels will arrive. Third, what insurance is needed and how the client has to change their logistics. We can advise them on that," the specialist stated.
Schoch referred that one of the risk scenarios that insurers could analyze is the probability of a tsunami reaching Lima and impacting the port of Chancay.
"Today, they (companies) buy a very specific policy for exports departing from Callao, and it turns out that now they will have to depart from the north," she added within the framework of the International Insurance Meeting 2026, organized by Apecose.
