what is the likely outcome in regards to America? I know obamanation is not interested in this, but I am.
I’d prefer an alternative Ulster.
Intersting, but that would be a lot of loading and unloading
of freight containers.
There once was a proposal to build a canal across Nicaragua........
It’s called a portage. They did it in ancient Corinth. Unload, transport, reload.
It should be the US negotiating to build the canal, not China.
No wonder why the Free Trade Communists were pushing a US Free Trade deal with Colombia....they are in cahoots with Communist China!
Wonder if this means the USA gets back the Panama Canal from the Communist Chinese? Knowing the Free Trade Communists....they would let the Communist Chinese keep it
The proposed dry canal is called “break bulk” - and the practice was largely phased out 100 years ago due to high labor costs - the reason ships are attractive is the efficiency of labor and fuel once all is loaded. The most expensive parts are the loading and unloading. Add one more cycle of loading/unloading and you may as well just go around the long way.
Columbia is not the most peaceful of places.... this scheme can’t work unless the tracks were absolutely secure; and I can see rebels targeting the tracks and the trains on them.
I doubt that this will happen. Too much time loading and unloading and the idea that they would load another ship immediately on the other side is not a real possibility.
The implications of this management deal should be obvious. In case of war, it will greatly hamper the ability of the US Navy to get ships from one ocean to another quickly.
Couple this with the fact that China now has a military base on the US mainland. A couple of years ago, the Clinton administration sold the Long Beach Naval Air Station to the China Overseas Shipping Company (COSCO). COSCO is using the facility as a port, but anybody who thinks that the Chinese military isn't ready to make the fullest possible use of the base at a moment's notice is living in a fantasy world.End snip
So now the 'Independent' closet leftist Santos is ready to hand Colombia to China on a silver platter. Precious.
The implications of this management deal should be obvious. In case of war, it will greatly hamper the ability of the US Navy to get ships from one ocean to another quickly.
Couple this with the fact that China now has a military base on the US mainland. A couple of years ago, the Clinton administration sold the Long Beach Naval Air Station to the China Overseas Shipping Company (COSCO). COSCO is using the facility as a port, but anybody who thinks that the Chinese military isn't ready to make the fullest possible use of the base at a moment's notice is living in a fantasy world.End snip
So now the 'Independent' closet leftist Santos is ready to hand Colombia over to China on a silver platter. Precious.
One more thought. We have had such an arrangement for a long time. Rather than a canal it is called a land bridge.
660 miles according to Bing. With a stop in Medellin, no doubt, to pay special taxes and/or pick up special cargo.
Doesn't look very promising.
Long before this is finished the Panama Canal Expansion Project will be done. The canal will then be able to handle ships up to 1800 feet long and 180 feet wide with a draft of 60 feet. That’s going to kill any advantage the overland route may have.
Aren’t they (whomever they are) expanding the Panama Canal as we speak?
Thought I saw or read where they are doing so.
Anything that keeps the Panama Canal operators from raising rates is a very good thing.
Will MSNBC send Chris Matthews to Egypt to cover this story?