Posted on 08/06/2014 9:14:07 PM PDT by blam
Tyler Durden
08/06/2014
A month ago, a Nicaraguan committee approved Chinese billionaire Wang Jing's project to create The Nicaraguan Canal. With a planned capacity to accommodate ships with loaded displacement of 400,000 tons (notably bigger than The Panama Canal), the proposed 278-kilometer-long canal that will run across the Nicaragua isthmus would probably change the landscape of the world's maritime trade.
"The project is the largest infrastructure project ever in the history of man in terms of engineering difficulty, investment scale, workload and its global impact," Wang told reporters, adding that with regard the project's financing, which is around $50 billion, Wang seems quite confident, "If you can deliver, you will find all the world's money at your disposal."
Worried about conservation? Don't be: "We have 100-year concession rights, we will be responsible to ourselves, and we are there to build, not to destroy," explained Wang.
As China Global Times reports,
"In the mountains and rivers of Central America, work on one of the world's largest infrastructure projects is progressing as planned, driven by Chinese billionaire Wang Jing."
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The Nicaragua Canal, which is about four times the length of the Panama Canal, will connect the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean upon its completion. The project is estimated to cost $50 billion.
"Our canal lock is 15-meter-thick, hard steel. Imagine its size. [It'll be] the world's largest," the 41-year-old Wang said"
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(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
Bump.
We used to do stuff like that.
Accompanied no doubt by a veritable army of Chinese
workers and administrators...
Dang. I thought the Chinese already had some sort of hold on the Panama Canal!
No doubt the Chinese will not give theirs up as easily as we did.
The Chinese will kill 3 million of their own people before they walk away, maybe more with any luck.
I wonder how much gold prospecting they will do on the way?
Was that us? I thought I recalled reading that we sent a dozen or more guys to the moon, too, but that had to be some other country they were talking about.
We should have built it decades ago—Next will come a huge population of Chinese workers to build it and oversee it—They will come north and enter the USA. Wait for 2 million Chinese to come accross the border—Watch as the Chinese take over Nicaragua—and push out the Latinos and replace them with Asians. The Chinese thing in long term plans-—they think 100 years in advance.
This pretty much will kill LA/Long Beach ports.
It will be nice not having all those trucks on the road.
it’s also a great excuse to ship 1,000,000 chinese regulars in the region
it also sounds like they're building a hardened asset that would be less likely to be destroyed in a conflict with the US (nuking panama to insure no ships sail thru is always a plan... this might be a bit tougher)
If I were Mexico I would develop a pacific and Atlantic port. Mexican trucks can deliver the goods north and the shippers will pay lower unloading fees with no longshoremans union to deal with
It is about time someone finally did this. Too bad we can’t/won’t do projects like this any more.
We could, probably, but the greenies and lawyers would bring it to a halt before the first shovel of dirt was turned.
We actually examined the idea of building a sea level canal using atomic bombs underground to create a string of craters from sea to sea. We didn’t do it, but I miss the times when Americans would imagine it at least!
“Sedan was the first in a series of experiments designed to perfect the techniques of nuclear excavation. The Sedan explosion occurred 635-feet below ground. The desert floor formed a dome 290-feet, moving 12-million tons of rock and leaving behind a crater 1,200-feet across and 320-feet deep.”
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/panama-canal-sea-level-1.htm
I thought I’d heard about deep water ports being developed in Mexico awhile back, just for the purpose of getting around the longshoremen.
It’s a good idea anyway, but Mexico being the third world toilet that it is, would only muck it up.
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