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2013-06-08 Caribbean-Latin America

Nicaragua gives Chinese firm contract to build alternative to Panama Canal

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Posted by Thromotch Pheatle9230 2013-06-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The greater issue is whether highly questionable Chinese engineering, stress, + design methods, etc. can be "fixed" before Nicaragua suddenly wakes up one day to finding giant = VLCC ships trapped in the interior + highlands of their country, + Managua having no way to unilater remove 'em???

Not in the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean thingys where such sized ships properly belong???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-06-08 01:27|| 2013-06-08 01:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Hell more power to 'em. 2 canals are better than one, brings down the tariff, maybe. If it's big enough for a max container ship then it's big enough for a Ford. :)

Posted by Shipman 2013-06-08 03:29|| 2013-06-08 03:29|| Front Page Top

#3 It's about time the Chinese used some of that cash we've been shoveling their way.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-06-08 07:43|| 2013-06-08 07:43|| Front Page Top

#4 it better have locks, Otherwise one ocean will drain into the other and we can walk to Europe

/Hank Johnson's Geography class

Snark of the day.

Posted by Frank G 2013-06-08 07:49|| 2013-06-08 07:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Very funny, FrankG. But would it not need locks just to balance the tides? I don't know how big tides are there (certainly not like Maine) but just a couple of feet would drive a stiff current.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-06-08 07:56|| 2013-06-08 07:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Nicaragua gives Chinese firm contract to build alternative to Panama Canal

...and it won't be tied up in Chinese courts over environmental issues for decades.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-06-08 09:45|| 2013-06-08 09:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Can you say ecological disaster? Sure you can. Ortega should take a look at what the Chinese have done to their own country before he turns them loose in his.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2013-06-08 13:45|| 2013-06-08 13:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Doesn't have a Chinaman's chance. So to speak.

Posted by Mojo 2013-06-08 14:32|| 2013-06-08 14:32|| Front Page Top

#9 "People have talked about a sea-level canal through Nicaragua for a hundred fify years. Once upon a time we could have done it, but now we give all our money to public employee pensions and health care instead..."

Let 'em build it, and we'll manage it...er, wait....is it possible to sell to China something they already own? /sarc

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-06-08 22:31|| 2013-06-08 22:31|| Front Page Top

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