News / US cyber experts probe suspect modems on China-made cranes

Communications equipment found on Chinese-manufactured quay cranes in the US has prompted fresh fears of espionage.

Equipment manufactured by state-owned ZPMC, one of the world’s biggest crane builders, has come under scrutiny at US ports.

A congressional probe found, at one port, 12 cellular modems on crane equipment and another in the port’s server room; the port authorities maintaining they had not specified that the cranes have these capabilities and saying they did not know why the communications equipment had been installed.

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