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01-19-2014, 06:19 PM
The Chinese are insane at going to all these places and building infrastructure. I remember going through Africa and you'd go to some remote places and see 100 Chinese construction workers building a freaking bridge or something. So I have absolutely no doubt they'll build this canal in Nicaragua, hell I thought it already was finalized.
Meanwhile in America we can't even build one freaking high speed rail line cause certain types don't want to invest in anything but weapons and wars.
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01-19-2014, 08:28 PM
I wonder what ecological effect this will have on Lake Nicaragua.
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01-19-2014, 08:34 PM
Yeah the Chinese don't take a lot of time discussing the benefits and/or adverse effects to building shit. Once they have an idea...it's built rather quickly. Sure this proposed canal in Nicaragua will be no different.
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06-16-2014, 09:30 PM
damn red army (jk?). colombia is not safe from chinese., africa is not safe from chinese ;p, persia is not safe from chinese, russia,is not safe from chinese. if u dont believe me look it up (chinese immigrants on HB-1 type visas for all these places in the world. they built a'the us railway system, but the nicaragua canal is a disaster. there goes the nicaragua $1 meal. i'll have to pay $2 for the same portions,after this canal gets built. plus they'll start learning chinese and gringos will lose value. i work in healthcare currently and i dont want to learn some new language called mandarin. ;p the chinese are a very diverse people but the traveling chinese are a disease of globalization. i'm not dissing the people of china, i'm talking about the situation. ¿will we have to know chinese to get top-paying jobs in 2024? excuse me while i order some 'kung-pao' chicken from chopsticks restuarant. one of my friends is from china ^^
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06-17-2014, 07:12 AM
Despite the greater distance in the Nicaragua route, if it would be possible to make a canal without locks, then transit time would be greatly reduced and simplified (no effort needed or risks incurred for constant opening and closing of locks). It really depends on the terrain between Venado and Lake Nicaragua if it's sloped or not, what kind of rock it's made of, climate conditions, etc.
I have no doubt that China can pull it off, the only question is: will such a canal be more attractive to ships than the current Panama route? Of course, the construction cost would be enormous, but if 100-year usage rights are given in return, there's no doubt that it would pay off.
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06-17-2014, 09:42 AM
For the young entrepreneur, figure out how to get a work permit in Nicaragua and import booze/women. This canal would be a massive project requiring thousands of men working in a remote place. As soon as they get their paychecks, the construction workers will want to blow it on booze, women, and gambling. There would definitely be lots of money to be made.
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03-19-2017, 02:28 AM
I forgot about the Nicaragua canal.
Especially since Panama now a new canal as of June 2016 - one that can take newer, larger ships that cannot go through the original canal.
Apparently, the new canal is having some issues though.
Hopefully, it will be able to cripple the clerical employee Longshoreman Union slugs who shut down the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach in 2012 because I guess a six-figure income is not sufficient for clerical work.
Larger ships with Asian goods can bypass LA/Long Beach by going directly to the east coast through the new canal.
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03-20-2017, 08:45 AM
This isn't going to happen.
It does not make any economic sense to build a canal through Nicaragua. The expanion of the Panama canal makes it unnecssary, and newer methods of intermodal shipping (shipping goods to the coast, then loading them directly onto trains, for example) makes it cheaper and faster to move goods from one coast to the other. The profit motive simply isn't there.
In addition to this, it would also destroy the unique ecosystem of Lake Nicaragua and indigenous people would have to be forceably relocated off their land. All the environmental and human rights groups would turn it into such a PR nightmare that the developers won't want to continue.
I thought for awhile this was some sort geopolitical move (I suspect this company in Hong Kong was working as a front for the Chinese government so they could gain a foothold in the Western Hemisphere.) But there are just so many factors working against this, I just don't see it ever happening.
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03-20-2017, 04:42 PM
Nobody witnessed any construction as of yet?