BEIJING, March 10 (Reuters) – Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy
Industries (ZPMC) said on Sunday its cranes do not
pose a cybersecurity threat, after U.S. congressional committees
questioned the Chinese state-owned company’s work on cranes
bound for the United States.
The House of Representatives security panels, scrutinising
ZPMC’s installation of Swiss engineering group ABB’s
equipment onto U.S.-bound ship-to-shore cranes, in January
invited ABB executives to public hearings to clarify its
relationship with ZPMC, which they said raised “significant
concerns”.
“ZPMC takes the U.S. concerns seriously and believes that
these reports can easily mislead the public without sufficient
factual review,” it said in a filing, referring to the probe by
the Homeland Security and Strategic Competition committees.
“The cranes provided by ZPMC do not pose a cybersecurity
risk to any ports,” it said.
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