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Re: Railroad Newsline for Thursday, 02/22/07--Yuma-InterCal Option?
Author: Carol L. Voss
Date: 02-22-2007 - 19:58
Mike Swanson Wrote:
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> Why would China bother with building a new canal
> when there's already a perfectly usable one in
> Panama? China's already spent money on upgrading
> the port facilities at both ends of the Panama
> Canal; all they need to do is invest that money
> you're talking about into widening the locks and
> the Culebra Cut (and wherever else along the Canal
> such widening is needed) and they'd have a canal
> capable of handling just about any ship now in use
> or on the drawing board
It will be easier to build a whole new one Nicaragua than widen the existing Panama Canal.
C.
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> Why would China bother with building a new canal
> when there's already a perfectly usable one in
> Panama? China's already spent money on upgrading
> the port facilities at both ends of the Panama
> Canal; all they need to do is invest that money
> you're talking about into widening the locks and
> the Culebra Cut (and wherever else along the Canal
> such widening is needed) and they'd have a canal
> capable of handling just about any ship now in use
> or on the drawing board
It will be easier to build a whole new one Nicaragua than widen the existing Panama Canal.
C.
