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| Mexico Plans Deep Water Port South Of San Diego, Rail Line Into US |
| 2009-10-25 |
| Mexican officials are reviving plans for a deep-water shipping port that could include a rail line through the southwestern Arizona city of Yuma to serve it. The shipping port would be located on the Baja California coast south of Ensenada. When the project first became public in 2007, it raised concerns in the Yuma area that it could disrupt local farming and roads and create pollution. The project came to a halt because of the global economic downturn, but Mexico's Ministry of Communications and Transportation published new bidding specifications this week for companies seeking to build and operate the port and the rail line that would move cargo shipped in from other nations. The ministry's announcement resurrects one of the proposed routes that would bring the rail line up from Punta Colonet through the Ensenada area, up through San Felipe, Baja Calif., then east to San Luis Rio Colorado in Sonora, where it would turn and cross the border east of Yuma on the way to the United States. All well and good, unless port management is turned over to Hutchinson-Whampoa, which is in tight with the Chinese PLA. Remember how Al Gore wanted to lease them the port at Long Beach? Maybe Ensenada is "Plan 'B'". It would not be good to have possible Chinese missiles only 70 miles from the US fleet at San Diego. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #24 Don't s'pose .5mt likes Rhodies either. |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2009-10-25 23:07 |
| #23 After growing up in Gwinnett I must say Forsyth is damn fine. |
| Posted by: Beavis 2009-10-25 21:24 |
| #22 Try Golan Hights wines, TW. I have done, g(r)omgoru, and it was well received. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-10-25 21:14 |
| #21 ION REDDIT > [IIRC]"AURORA" IS NASA'S EXPERIMENTAL SPACE PLANE PROTOTYPE; + NASA'S X-37B SPACE PLANE IS SCHEDULED TO TAKE ITS FIRST TEST-FLIGHT [high-altitude = orbital] NEXT AUGUST 2010??? * SAME > FORGET MONORAIL: THE FUTURE IS SKYTRAN; + THE TRAIN THAT NEVER STOPS. HUMOR > "SKYTRAN" > is that you, MAURICE [Tran]!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-10-25 20:45 |
| #20 Hutchinson Wampoa has contracts for the dock facilities on both sides of the Panama Canal. If they pull a fast one with Mexico on the proposed port, they will get Taiwan without a shot. Just make a few quiet off the radar remarks to someone in BOA (Big O Administration) and it's done. This is like a wasp laying an egg inside the insect larvae and it eats the larvae from the inside out while still alive (shudders at the analogy). |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-10-25 17:12 |
| #19 Ah. That was probably a tone it down tactic. Should have seen Shark Week. That was really aggressive. A few of us can be territorial about the Burg. Just trying to keep it below opposition radar is all. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2009-10-25 17:01 |
| #18 Much obliged Mike. Speaking for myself mind you, but I've experienced a bit of his humour and taunts in the past. Had one particularly bitter session caught in my throught for quite some time. My last on it. Grote. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-10-25 16:51 |
| #17 And the value added here .5MT? That was internet humor intended for those who |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2009-10-25 16:33 |
| #16 Mexico should have done this the day after NAFTA went through. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2009-10-25 15:51 |
| #15 we should look twice at allowing those trains through I'd say more like half a dozen times but knowing the way our government works I'm afraid it ain't likely to happen that way. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2009-10-25 15:29 |
| #14 Try Golan Hights wines, TW. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-10-25 15:20 |
| #13 This is also an approach to undercut the dock workers union [and costs] in CA. Want to strike in the Bay, Long Beach, or San Diego. Just move the ships to Mexico to offload. Remember this. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-10-25 14:54 |
| #12 Now, now, children. That'll do. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-10-25 14:53 |
| #11 Yeah, yeah, it's old... why is Forsyth County like grits? it's full of flavorless wannabe South Africans with no taste. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-10-25 14:28 |
| #10 Same situation with Red White @ Blue... amirite thar Forsyth? |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-10-25 14:25 |
| #9 Have any of you actually tasted Magen David wine? *shudder* I think it may be why so few Jews become alcoholics. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-10-25 14:07 |
| #8 Yes, if US customs is much easier from Mexico than from China, look at China bribing Mexican customs to look the other way. This could de facto bring China into NAFTA. |
| Posted by: Skunky Angeack7024 2009-10-25 14:05 |
| #7 likely none, but if China's paying for the port (likely), we should look twice at allowing those trains through. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-10-25 13:56 |
| #6 I wonder how much of this USAID is paying for??? |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2009-10-25 13:27 |
| #5 Heh heh thatn purdy good Cobb boy. That's jooo wine... amirite? |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-10-25 13:13 |
| #4 I threw you a bone, that's all |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-10-25 13:12 |
| #3 And the value added here .5MT? Or was this just another mindless insert between swills in the Mogan David? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-10-25 13:11 |
| #2 In before Frank! |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-10-25 13:07 |
| #1 Ridin' that train high on cocaine, Casey Jones better watch your speed. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2009-10-25 12:22 |