This Will Destroy the Panama Canal

The Truth About China in South America. After a century of being the most efficient way to get between the Pacific and the Atlantic, The Panama Canal's small size and increasingly long wait times are causing people to lose faith in the US construction and instead seek solutions elsewhere. China wants to build a new Canal in Nicaragua, Mexico is trying to build the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and several South American countries are banding together to create the Bi-Oceanic Corridor.

The new canal in Nicaragua has been attempted and reached several roadblocks over the last several decades, HKND a Chinese construction company made promise to change the canals fate, but after some shady tactics, a slew of unkeepable expectations and the chinese stock market crash, the company went out of business and the project was shelved for the time being.

Mexico on the other hand has seen a bit more success with the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, looking to revive a rail system that once was a lucrative and convenient means of transporting goods and upgrade it into a modern alternative to the Panama Canal.

Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Paraguay have also decided to join forces to create the Bi-Oceanic Corridor, another set of rail lines that look to streamline productivity and trade in the regions and with the expanding Asian market. If the United States chooses not to act, China's involvement and Panama struggles could lead to a shift in control over main trade routes in South America.

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[atulmalhotra]

How are overland rail/road projects even an alternative to waterways ? Unloading and reloading cargo is a mighty expensive proposition.

Why is Guyana never in the picture?

[chrisconklin]

New cannal options are based upon continued large shipping volumes. Though there will always be a demand for a cannal, projections of shipping volume increases are questionable. Globalized trade is decentralizing with a trend towards more localized production.

[josephmartin]

Thanks, excellent story, this project must be built .

[plainjane]

In 1888 they started a construction project called the chignecto ship railway... the concept was to take two train tracks side by side and pick up ships in the Northumberland straight and relocate them in the Bay of Funday across the Chinecto Isthmus and vice versa.
As a project was never finalized I do believe it was near 75% completion when the government refused any more funding, it is now a recreation Trail

[AraCarrano]

Glossed over France's attempt in 1880.

[yutakago]

Panama canal is killing itself. The drought stop vessels from passing thru. The trend for container ship is to build larger vessel so that transportation cost can be reduce. The size of the canal means larger vessels cannot use the canal.

[jimmycologne]

Ulterior motives? You can''t keep your political trash talk to yourself, can you?

[benediktmorak]

It will not kill the Canal.
Those xxxl Evergreen and Maersk Container behemoths can not use the Suez or Panama Canal.
And for smaller container ships, well the Mexicans for sure are aware that they have to put up an excellent and efficient infrastructure.
To make shipowners use the railway instead of waiting for days and weeks to get a berth in the locks.
And since you all crow and swoon about that global warming, the Northern Passage, Canada and Russia, will be more and more free of ice.
And ships will go there without the help of an ice breaker.
And it will be not frozen over for 9 month of the year.

[kvom]

That Nicaraguan project has been talked about for years, and China has economic problems. Plus, the majority of Nicaraguans oppose the canal.

[Chris_at_Home]

If more railroads were built from west coast to east coast ships could be offloaded and containers shipped to the east coast and get there faster. Time is also a cost to be considered when shipping as goods sitting in containers is stagnant money.

[JoeyRay-fzqe]

Hauling ships by rail will not work. Ships now are huge so making a railroad bed to carry it would be a great feat. Then loading and unloading a ship will take time let alone hauling it across land would be slower then the canal. Then think of the cost to move it, it would be better to build a larger canal in Nicaragua!

[tagalong]

Not a problem. Put enough rails on a track system. Use a dry doc, load the boat/ship on it haul it out and across land in to another dry dock dump it in the water. No unload reloading a ship

[thomasmazur]

They finished expanding the Panama Canal to handle Chinese giant cargo ships. They do unload ships and send the products by rail.

[Mechanixscott]

We don't need more, more, more! What is needed is common sense.

[MarkDonahue-reiw]

Yep China's rated or doorstep aren't they

[markrowland]

Ble China. The US built Panama canel of 1914 to double the size of its navy. The country of Panama built that which we have today. They built this for bigger ships than ever used but we now use ships far bigger even more of them. These ships use more water. The Red sea is now expensive even though the Suez is sea level.

[vijayakumarannair]

Why not revive the Panama canal by using salt water in the lifts?

[Shipspotting_Vietnam]

Same things happen to Mekong delta in Vietnam!!!!

[RagsHSC-]

In the beginning when contemplating creating a canal in the best places to do it before the stock crash in the 1920s. Nicaragua was 1st on the list to build an actual straight through corridor from the west to the east. Primarily from the Orient to and fro and the Americas. It came to a vote from taking over for the French of the Panama and Nicaragua in the Senate of the USA. Now the USA did not want to take over a complex lock system that the French just could not deal with the type of geological issues at hand. This is the same thing with the Louisiana purchase, you would have thought they would have learned why they have sold Louisiana or they're portion thereof to the US due to the fact that they could not stand a geological circumstances and entities in swamp infested Waters. Filled with mosquitoes and most of the men, sorry ladies. It was all men back in them days for that specific type of work at that time. Nevertheless, when it came to the vote of either Nicaragua or the takeover of the Panama in the house. Senate Nicaragua had sent a new postage stamp as a an example of how much they really needed that canal. Unfortunately, they put the picture of the volcano and all volcanoes are active to one level or another, including the Marshal Islands and especially in the Pacific Ocean such as Hawaii and Iwo Jima and the island hopping campaign we had to do in world war II. Of those land masses are still active to this day. The sea floor moves along in almost like clockwork. It will push a new island up out of the sea. Well Panama and their self-interest of commerce. They pushed that issue to the point of scare tactics to the US senators and POTUS at the time making a mountain out of a molehill per se. No pun intended ! There has not been an issue with that volcano to this day. It would have been a lock-free corridor. Nicaragua still to this day in the area of design is still possible. It would be much faster and wider. I've worked for the largest Earth movers in the world to the point of general superintendent over the entire corporation. I will leave that company's nameless. Nevertheless, 27 years of experience and with the new designs and of our heavy equipment. Oh yes! We can absolutely build that large waterway, Large enough for 2 Ford class carriers and Nimitz class to pass each other coming and going without locks. They're willing to do away with the lake. I believe that canal could be built in less than 3 years. If all the equipment was ready and on site at 3 different locations. One on the west side, one in the freshwater lake, and the last crew on the east side all working towards each other. We have concrete mats that we install along ocean sides so to not erode the slopes even to the bottom at Max depth to the top top of the slope to the embankment. They could easily keep a good portion of their fresh water by all the fill that's being removed on the west side and pushing it East with building an embankment with the fill from the West and move it to the east. Easily could be 500 ft wide no problem. But Panama had used the scare tactics of that volcano and nobody had actually went over there and looked at anything. So we went with a 99-year lease. We the people of the United States of America. Nicaragua would be able to keep 60% or more of their freshwater without interfering with that and all that it supports. Such as drinking water and freshwater fishing and things of that nature. I believe it would be cheaper today and then under 3 years could be built with the equipment that we have today the end of days that we had to clean up the French issues at the Panama locks. The Panama locks gave no room for growth. This inhibits the backlog and ships just sitting out there for a week at a time and the cost that they're making per ship is so much that every Panamanian citizen does not have to work a day in their life for the rest of their born days and all those in the future. There's a lot of money in that. Certain companies pay billions of dollars per year and duty fees to go through locks of Panama. Nicaragua could easily reduce the fees and it being much closer would get most if not then near all of the business of the shipping industry. I remember this clearly due to a study that was made in a meeting. Putting together a comprehensive assessment on the geological and weather systems in the proposed routes. I believe there were three routes all together. Nicaragua that were suggested. Some with a few locks but no nowhere near what. Panama has today. Water level decreasing and now with the new well I should say newer panamax ships which are the largest in the world of their trade. Nicaragua there is two routes that it could be built with no locks. It came to spring the waters with diesel fuel to kill the mosquitoes where malaria was a major killer of workman in Panama and sprang the surface of the waters with diesel which is or has a high oil content. Totally eradicated the mosquito and malaria issues. We have better stuff than that now so we don't have to deal with the environmentalist and or the EPA if it was a USA endeavor. I really enjoyed the show. It went around the bushes in a few topics but it was right on point. Just found your channel and I deeply appreciate it. Enjoyed it and it exactly what I was looking for. Subscribed and for all Future to be notified ASAP. Thank you for your time and effort into your work. It shows and I hope this message greets you well. God bless 🕊️🕊️🕊️

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