The U.S. Government is viewing China-made port cranes as a modern-day Trojan horse clad in a steel exterior.
On February 21, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order authorizing the Department of Homeland Security and the Coast Guard to address the “cybersecurity threat” posed by Chinese cranes within the United States. He also proposed an investment of over $20 billion in the next five years to bolster crane production by PACECO Corp., a U.S.-based subsidiary of