Inside The $301 BN Quest to Bypass the Panama Canal

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  • Опубликовано: 4 янв 2025

Комментарии • 46

  • @josephdirvin401
    @josephdirvin401 День назад +2

    I was stationed in Panama and saw the lengths d breadth of the Panama Canal. It was well run and managed.

  • @tedsmith6137
    @tedsmith6137 2 дня назад +4

    5:47 You might want to clarify your location of the ports. Uraba is a town well inland, about 180 km from any water. The Pacific port is proposed to be at Jurado and the the Caribbean port at an unspecified location on the Gulf of Uraba, which is nowhere near the town of Uraba.

  • @jackbarnhill9354
    @jackbarnhill9354 10 часов назад

    When I was a kid in the 60s and 70s, I lived in Panama. We used to go to the French Cut, where old rusted French equipment still existed, and go skinny-dipping. The fact that the French engineers planed to build a sea level canal through the continental divide, a series of towering mountains, was just plain crazy. Plus, the geology of the area would’ve made a sea level canal impossible. The American solution; to damn the Chagres river and create a large man-made lake, and then connecting it with locks to the oceans was a brilliant solution. Also, they licked the malaria problem. In the 70s, the US was losing $1 million a year trying to run the canal. Since it’s purpose with strategic and not economic, it was worth the cost. Now Panama is facing the problem of paying for something that was never made to make money. Maybe President Trump will buy it back.

  • @RobertL-y3v
    @RobertL-y3v 2 дня назад +3

    The Mexico canal will be a challenge for Panama, especially if Mexico lowers the transit costs. The only issue would be the shallow approach waters on either side- but can be over come.

    • @DarkJediForce
      @DarkJediForce 20 часов назад +1

      The Cartels can't wait for the cargo loads to increase. Not only will it help them distribute their products but also to take whatever they want. There will be containers going missing as more expensive products are shipped through Mexico.

  • @CorinneB-v3r
    @CorinneB-v3r День назад

    I enjoyed this video. Thank you, looking forward to more

  • @ASmithee67
    @ASmithee67 День назад +3

    Mexico's Interocean Corridor is a SHIP UNLOAD - TRAIN - SHIP LOAD corridor. There is no way in hell or heaven a ship-railroad-ship corridor will take "only 7 hours".

  • @titusjohnny
    @titusjohnny День назад

    Can we ship the ship from coast to coast?.

  • @sulaco1156
    @sulaco1156 День назад +14

    I think you should check your sources before posting your video about Panama. Full of old references and inaccuracies. Try again.

    • @jeannek4033
      @jeannek4033 День назад +2

      But, but, Al Gore said the oceans are RISING!!!😫

    • @Sweet..letssurf
      @Sweet..letssurf День назад +1

      I think you should defend your comment with facts if you are going to talk shit
      Or are you just a trump sheep ?

    • @nicktrejo6641
      @nicktrejo6641 День назад

      ❤😢

    • @MarkGovern
      @MarkGovern Час назад

      @@jeannek4033They are rising, and you know they are!

    • @MarkGovern
      @MarkGovern 59 минут назад

      Yet you can’t identify any!
      Good news for everyone that the Panama Canal will no longer be the only way to move cargo from the Atlantic to the pacific. Long overdue.

  • @InsideTraderNancy
    @InsideTraderNancy День назад +2

    Thought sea levels were rising? 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

    • @trevoroneil3522
      @trevoroneil3522 18 часов назад

      👏👍🤣🤣🤣

    • @MarkGovern
      @MarkGovern Час назад

      Sea levels are rising. That’s not in question.
      This video is about a manmade canal which is not an ocean.
      The earth isn’t flat either unfortunately. Hope I haven’t ruined your day.

  • @mrbaab5932
    @mrbaab5932 День назад

    High speed rail is a more practical option over Meglev rail.

  • @DarkJediForce
    @DarkJediForce 20 часов назад

    The northwest passage is now usable since most of the arctic ice is melting. Hence why China and Russia are attempting to establish their influence in the area and Canada is now establishing more military presence in Northern Canada.

  • @sunshine7453
    @sunshine7453 День назад

    The Panama solution is the use of pumps during the drought years. They are much cheaper and quicker to implement for a few hundred million dollars than building a new canal!

  • @djmiller5563
    @djmiller5563 День назад

    Here's an idea; Mexico for example, rather than take all the cargo off the ship and transport it by train, make the tracks big and wide enough to handle the ship itself and pull the ship from one end to the other..? I think this would be much cheaper and faster.

  • @SteveKogowski
    @SteveKogowski День назад +1

    Why not install fliters and pumps on each side and pump water into the system as needed oceans water levels are rising so it would help with 2 major problems the whole world is effect by. To pay for the system each nation,province , and territory would have to pay a equal amount!!

  • @Javierndisanze2465
    @Javierndisanze2465 2 дня назад +3

    It will be hard to replace the Panama canal

    • @Ergo8152
      @Ergo8152 День назад

      Trump on top it. Panama b flying USA flag buy summer

  • @THEPATRIOT1000
    @THEPATRIOT1000 День назад

    Why not create a rail to transport the entire ship?

  • @MidnightWarrior1976
    @MidnightWarrior1976 2 дня назад +8

    The drought is over. And the fees are too high. And the Chinese have too much control. Time for a real change.

    • @donaldhumbert7818
      @donaldhumbert7818 День назад +1

      Drought isn't over...you think climate change just stopped? 🤦‍♂️ But they are making a new reservoir, which will resolve that...which increases traffic and helps with traffic and fees. And, no, they don't have too much China control...it is PANAMA's, not China! If we want greater engagement, then step up on the port investments...they're presence increased as they've invested more...step up or lose.

    • @glennjeffers9692
      @glennjeffers9692 День назад

      Need the tariffs

    • @MidnightWarrior1976
      @MidnightWarrior1976 День назад +1

      @@donaldhumbert7818 Drought is over. Excessive rain has filled Gatun to 89 feet -- which may be a record. There is no climate change.

    • @Vicki-r4u
      @Vicki-r4u День назад

      ​@@glennjeffers9692 Pay attention to who is donating to the inauguration fund. Then look at who gets exemptions from tariffs. It's the rest of us that will be paying for tariffs and not the billionaires

    • @MidnightWarrior1976
      @MidnightWarrior1976 8 часов назад

      @@donaldhumbert7818 How do you know? Are you God? Droughts and the opposite have come and gone for millennia. Gatun is at a record level! No one knows if global warming makes more rain or less rain in a particular area. You present yourself as an intellectual but can't spell at the 6th grade level. Quaint.

  • @tedsmith6137
    @tedsmith6137 2 дня назад

    Not quite sure what the difference is between a freight train and a "fright train".

  • @StevenGreen-h5p
    @StevenGreen-h5p День назад

    Cape horn? = straight of Magellan I think unless I'm mistaken from geography class cape horn or cape of hope in southern tip of Africa. Other than that good informative video there's several places I'm central America that are viable with modern machinery and using natural geography of routes. And central America isn't the only viable place to build new modern canals. The area there gains modern economic growth because of it short shipping route in a natural choke area. Numerous small rivers streams can be dug out using modern dredges the material can be used for concrete and or mineral wealth gold and other metals Isreal making a 2nd route gives overloaded suez canal choke hold another option people have considered a black sea to gulf of suez routes using various rivers as parts of propesd route I'm future such routes can be possible economic viable. But likely political suicide 🤔

  • @Peter-m5n7m
    @Peter-m5n7m День назад

    China is opening a Mega seaport in Chauncey, Peru, which can handle the newer mega ship too large to pass through the PCZ. Whichever route makes sense to China will be the route. Moreover, China and Nicaragua are out of favor with the USA. So, I'm betting on the Nicaragua Canal

  • @WadeKratzmann
    @WadeKratzmann День назад

    10million a year is peanuts.

  • @jbj27406
    @jbj27406 День назад +2

    The Mexican "canal" is absurd. For one very significant reason. BREAK BULK. If you have to unload an entire ship's cargo onto a train, and then reload it onto a ship, you've defeated the purpose. Hell, you can run that train track anywhere if you're going to break and reload your cargo. We could just connect Galveston and San Diego and do the same thing. IF YOU WANT TO BREAK BULK.

  • @mrbaab5932
    @mrbaab5932 День назад

    Lol, Meglev never really works well.

  • @glennjeffers9692
    @glennjeffers9692 День назад

    Ya who's really paying for it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @raybarton7725
    @raybarton7725 День назад

    Get to the point.

  • @glennjeffers9692
    @glennjeffers9692 День назад +1

    Shut both down California won't be able to do there crap

  • @donaldhumbert7818
    @donaldhumbert7818 День назад

    Guy's an idiot...they're building new reservoir to resolve the water reserve issue. Doing a newer, longer canal will take a TON of money, time, logistics...while the reservoir will be DONE in just a few years. Clueless.

  • @jvbriody
    @jvbriody День назад

    The U.S. and Mexico could build a new shipping canal along their border together at sea level for faster travel from Brownsville, TX to Santa Fe, TX to Tijuana , MX. Bore tunnels through mountains. Make the canal straight, crossing both countries borders. Share its cost, maintenance and operation, and of course the revenues.