China Blocks Access to Maritime Shipping Data, FT Reports
- Signals that help ships avoid collisions fell in November
- Comes as China passes law to protect sensitive information
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China is preventing public access to shipping location signals because of national security concerns, the Financial Times reported, as Beijing seeks greater control over the country’s economic data.
The number of Automatic Identification System signals coming from ships in Chinese waters dropped from more than 15 million per day in October to about 1 million per day in early November, the paper reported Wednesday, without citing where it got the information. The data could not immediately be verified by Bloomberg News.