[meatloaf]

That ignores the fact that shipping companies got greedy and built mega container sips that won’t fit through the Panama Canal.

Being almost 3x bigger, capacity wise, they not only won’t fit through the canal but take much longer to unload which is part of the problem for Kalifornia port operations.

[Wallace T.]

The Chinese attempted to build a second Pacific to Gulf canal in the last decade through Nicaragua, a fellow Communist country, in the last decade, but abandoned it due to shortages of funds. Such a canal would have been able to handle the megaships that the Panama Canal cannot accommodate. Ironically, the CCP abandonment of the project crippled their ability to ship to U.S. markets.