Exclusive: Chinese state-owned company behind plane that held up RAAF supplies to Vanuatu | Gallo_Ways
deliver humanitarian supplies on Sunday for the cyclone-struck nation.The C-17A RAAF plane had to return to Brisbane after reaching its fuel limit while circling the airport and returned a day later to deliver the supplies.
Graeme Smith, a research fellow at the Australian National University's College of Asia and the Pacific, said it was not unusual for a company like CCECC to help co-ordinate donated supplies on behalf of the Chinese government and other groups. "There a handful of companies that are very big in the Pacific in terms of infrastructure contracting and this company would be in the top three easily."
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