Move over Panama Canal... "Nicaragua has awarded a Chinese - TopicsExpress



          

Move over Panama Canal... "Nicaragua has awarded a Chinese company a 100-year concession to build an alternative to the Panama Canal, in a step that looks set to have profound geopolitical ramifications." "The new route will be a higher-capacity alternative to the 99-year-old Panama Canal, which is currently being widened at the cost of $5.2bn. .....the new canal should be able to allow passage for mega-container ships with a dead weight of up to 250,000 tonnes. This is more than double the size of the vessels that will be able to pass through the Panama Canal after its expansion."
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:33:21 +0000

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