Mexico Builds New Interoceanic Railway to Compete With Panama Canal

Greek Reporter ^ | September 29, 2024 | Christopher Gomez

[George from New England]

More b.s. in the story.
Its not a drought.
They built the ‘new locks’ and operate both sets of locks now. Panama was told it had to increase the size of Gatun Lake to accommodate the new volume. Panama did nothing.
Not enough water to supply the new expansion.
Simple.

[TangoLimaSierra]

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[nickcarraway]

Panama was told it had to increase the size of Gatun Lake to accommodate the new volume. Panama China did nothing.

[john drake]

The Federales better guard that new rail line well; plenty of banditos willing to rob that train from time to time....just sayin’.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Now, if they just put up a huge fence on either side of the tracks to prevent accidental deaths they can solve our illegal problem at the same time. :)

[rktman]

Putting loaded ships on rail cars can be tricky.....🤔

[Olog-hai]

So where would the water to increase the size of the lake in question come from?

[Elsie]

Lessee...

Ship arrives Mexico
Ship unloads
ship deadheads back to where it came from
Train goes across Mexico
train unloads onto ship
ship sails to destination.

VS

Ship arrives at canal
Ship goes thru canal
Ship goes to destination

Yup - that’ll be cost effective!

But it’ll sure make jobs!!

[Elsie]

rain

[fidelis]

Silly me; I had always assumed the water for the locks come from one or both of the oceans on either side of the isthmus, when in fact it depends on a fresh water lake?

[ducttape45]

All this just goes to show, again, why the USA should have never given the Panama Canal to the local government.

[T.B. Yoits]

I had always assumed the water for the locks come from one or both of the oceans on either side of the isthmus, when in fact it depends on a fresh water lake?

Yes, the cost and equipment to pump trillions of gallons of water into the locks is unfeasible. Filling the locks by gravity requires freshwater lakes at a higher altitude.

[shotgun]

Now the cartels can employ some train robbers to steal goods and more sugglers to transport human sex slaves and drugs coast to coast.

[AZJeep]

Exactly, the new locks use (waste) a lot more water, while the supply did not increase.

BTW, Punta Arenas, the main port in Straight of Magellan is the biggest benefactor of this blunder!
I happened to visit there and they were just excited!
Lots of boats now give up and just circle the South America instead waiting in line and paying the fees.
It really lifted the economy of many South American ports.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

“”The Federales better guard that new rail line well; plenty of banditos willing to rob that train from time to time....just sayin’.””

Exactamundo! I read the Spanish language newspapers from Spain to get more information on the decline of Mexico. There are bus companies that refuse to serve certain areas unless the army provides escort. The people who dare to take a bus carry nothing of value. The gangs and cartels do not just stop the bus and rob everyone. Sometimes they burn the bus.

[PIF]

Cartels will get in on the ground floor.

[PIF]

But it’ll sure make jobs!!

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for the cartels

[PIF]

All this just goes to show, again, why the USA should have never given the Panama Canal to the local government.

—
Jimmy Carter sold it to the Chinese.

[hanamizu]

Yep, U.S. engineers over 100 years ago figured out how to operate the Canal based on the incessant rainfall that defeated the earlier French attempt to build a canal. Adding larger locks to accommodate larger ships without increasing the water supply was an easily foreseen problem.