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Nicaragua shelves Canal plan to head for port

Wednesday, February 14, 2018


These days almost nobody is mentioning the plan to build a rival for the Panama Canal. But what seems to be a much more modest alternative -- the development of a deepwater port at Bluefields on the Caribbean Coast.

What fuels the new project is a feasibility study now under way, and the construction of a new road that will link Bluefields to the Pacific.

Source: (in Spanish) La Prensa