[Average Al]

Intersting, but that would be a lot of loading and unloading
of freight containers.

[GraceG]

Back when the Panama Canal was built they didn’t handle freight the same way, now it is always shipped in shipping containers that are equally well packed on trains or boats with no modification needed.

Plus this also allows China to send some of their shipments to South America and Europe at the same time for a great part of their journey.

[muawiyah]

International freight containers loaded on rail to reload on another container ship ain't no thang.

The rail line would have exclusive right of way for this traffic. Gotta' be dirt cheap!

[dblshot]

Cargo containers are pretty efficient to load/unload. My concern would be containers stopping over in Columbia and then moving either directly or indirectly to the US. It's a stupid headline though, a railroad is not a canal.

[Londo Molari]

“Intersting, but that would be a lot of loading and unloading of freight containers.”

This is done right now with US Railroads. Container ships dock at the Port of LA or Seattle, then unload their containers onto doublestack RR cars. Those trains are then driven by UP or BNSF and handed off to East Coast RR’s (CSX or Norfolk Southern) to bring to east coast ports. These items are then loaded on another container vessel to transport to Europe.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Intersting, but that would be a lot of loading and unloading
of freight containers.

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Actually.....that is not an issue. Most of the containers used in shipping now can be put on a boat, a truck, a train...with only lifting the container to and from the mode of transport.

Next time you see a freight train....notice how most of the containers look like truck trailers....and note how many are Communist Chinese

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“Intersting, but that would be a lot of loading and unloading of freight containers.”

Correct. Hence the third locks system will take care of much of this