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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 we tell you about it.
The port of Chancay has become a key piece, even beyond the export sector. What other sectors' 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 international political issue 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 leave directly from there, then that's wonderful. It's great for clients (of insurers and reinsurers). We (as insurance sector companies) 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 mentioned that one of the risk scenarios that insurers could analyze is the probability of a tsunami reaching Lima and impacting the port of Chancay.
"Nowadays, they (companies) buy a very specific policy for exports leaving Callao, and now they will have to leave from the north," she added during the International Insurance Meeting 2026, organized by Apecose.
