With the original Grand Interoceanic Nicaragua Canal formally cancelled earlier this year, the country’s president took the opportunity of the China-Latin America and Caribbean Business summit to announce a new project along a different route. This will run for 445 kilometres from the existing Corinto port on the Pacific coast to a new port, Bluefields, on the Atlantic coast. The passage includes a 55km transit of Lake Xolotian in the west. It will skirt north of Lake Nicaragua (Cocibolca) in contrast to the original proposal, and, in the east of the country touch a new artificial lake. The canal width will be between 290 and 540 metres with a depth (up to) 27m. It remains to be seen if anything ever comes of this; the first plan took twelve years to be cancelled.
Source: DynaLiners 48/24 – 29 November 2024
