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Introduced the project for the construction of the navigation channel of 278 kilometers through Nicaragua
The width of the water way will be between 230 and 520 meters and its depth of 30 meters. The work, included others five infrastructural projects, will cost 40 billion dollars
July 8, 2014
Egrave; number 4 the route chosen between the six characterized in order to join with a marine way the oceans Atlantic and Pacific through Nicaragua, channel that will be in competition with that of Panama hat. The project is introduced yesterday by the Comisión of the Great Canal de Nicaragua and by the HKND Group, the society of Hong Kong guided by Wang Jing who in 2012 is selected in order to plan, to construct and to manage the new Nicaraguan channel and other infrastructural projects.
The channel will be along 278 kilometers and will leave from the coast of Brito, on the Pacific, will cross for 105 kilometers the Great Lake of Nicaragua (Cocibolca) in order to finish to Gorda Tip, on the Caribbean coast of the Central American nation. The width of the channel will be between 230 and 520 meters and its depth will be of 30 meters. The channel will be fed with water of an artificial lake of 400 square kilometers situated in the Región Autónoma Atlántico Sur (RAAS).
The cost of the work, that the realization of two locks, a bonded area, an airport on the coast of the Pacific, of a resort and a series of street arteries will include others five infrastructural projects (), will pile to about 40 billion dollars.
The construction of the new channel - it has announced Wang Jing - will begin the next December and the project will be realized in five years.
In the course of the presentation it is specified that every year through the new channel 5,100 ships will be able to pass, between which those largest ones of the world, with a transit time of 30 hours, included the crosswalk of the two closed.
Alle two extremities of the channel will be realized two ports, to Brito and Aguila Tip, in the jurisdiction of Gorda Tip, that they will have an ability to annual traffic of 2,8 million tons and 25 million container teu.
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Egrave; number 4 the route chosen between the six characterized in order to join with a marine way the oceans Atlantic and Pacific through Nicaragua, channel that will be in competition with that of Panama hat. The project is introduced yesterday by the Comisión of the Great Canal de Nicaragua and by the HKND Group, the society of Hong Kong guided by Wang Jing who in 2012 is selected in order to plan, to construct and to manage the new Nicaraguan channel and other infrastructural projects.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
