The $270 Billion Race to Replace the Panama Canal
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- The Panama Canal, one of the greatest engineering marvels in history, is facing a crisis like never before. With water levels at record lows, daily ship transits slashed, and shipping costs skyrocketing, the future of this vital trade route is in jeopardy.
In this video, we explore the $270 billion race to replace the Panama Canal and its massive role in global trade. From Mexico’s Interoceanic Corridor to Colombia’s ambitious railway project and Nicaragua’s controversial Mega-Canal, countries across the Americas are competing to claim the crown.
But Panama isn’t giving up without a fight. The Panama Canal Authority is rolling out bold upgrades and strategies to stay competitive in a rapidly changing global trade landscape.
Which megaproject do you think will take the lead and reshape global trade? Let us know in the comments!
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Thank you all for watching our video! If you thought the Panama Canal’s challenges were intense, wait until you hear about the Suez Canal. From missile strikes to billion-dollar alternatives, the race to replace the Suez is heating up. Check out our latest video on the trillion-dollar battle for global trade dominance: ua-cam.com/video/29mS_nARsZM/v-deo.html
And I bet you never heard of a seaway as important as the Panama Canal to the US, or have you? Take a look: ua-cam.com/video/xLZyRfsXEKI/v-deo.html
haha pushing the climate change scam again
The canal is only 77 km not 12 000 km
❤❤❤❤at minute 1:58 .....you speak about 12 000 km .....❤❤❤❤this is from Pacific to Atlantic ❤❤❤❤?
One of the problems in these countries is all the indigenous tribes that don't want their way of life destroyed. A solution is digging deep tunnels that can have a direct underground railway between the two coasts. It would avoid disturbing the rain forests and the various tribes.
I think you forgot too tell every one that they control the amount of water that is in the system and that panama is lowering the water to raise tolls its gotten so bad people are bidding on slots to go through costing 1 mil usd plus according to cargo hints why trump wants it back in us hands theres a lack of water and higher tolls bc panama wants it to be like this
I transited the Panama canal in 1974 as a 3rd Mate aboard the US Lines container ship S/s American Astronaut. US Lines, the largest American registered container shipping company in The United States had 7 container ship built in Norfolk, Virginia all designed for the Asian market. These 7 ships ran between New York and Japan, stopping in both Long Beach, CA and Oakland, CA with various smaller ports as Hawaii. They transited on a 42 day rotation. 700 ft long, 62 ft wide with a maximum draft of 32 ft. Our service speed was 31 knots. Net tonnage was 28,000 tons. Today, container ships are 8 times this size, automated carrying a 13 person crew, we had 38 persons aboard. The Panama Canal was a Marvel in the World of man made accomplishments.
me too back in the day ..nice to meet you
the Panama Canal is now back to normal due to the return of the rain. Gatum Lake is almost full.
I wonder if these videos are paid for by our government climate scam department.
3:50 Climate change is NOT increasing droughts, according to the IPCC Scientific Reports. How much was this channel paid to insert falsehoods about that?
I take away its time to rethink its basic design due to climate “variations.”
The lake is crucial and now fluctuates beyond intended design.
Not a mistake, just crap that happens, deal with it.
@@johnl5316 True Believers do it for free.
@@johnl5316 Thank you ... I just wrote a similar comment . Sorry about that but in a way it was obvious that we are being taken for a ride . UN and crass politicians desiring to pillage Western nations for all they build and have . John ... Peace and much love to you .
I’m an American that lives in Panama 🇵🇦. The canal is just fine.
but it would be much better if the US re-establishes the Canal Zone.
@@gerryj8839 sigan soñando
@@gerryj8839 no it wouldn’t.
Don't worry it will be American again soon. Freedom is coming back to panama along with a few Abrams tanks and some f35s.
@@lok777 no, that will never happen. Also, we who live here are already more free than if we lived in the U.S.
we just passed the canal 3 weeks ago and it was such an amazing experience. a definite bucket list checked off.
22,000 workers lost their lives during the initial, abandoned, French phase of the construction. An additional 6900 workers died during the concluding, successful, American phase.
And most of those Frenchmen's deaths were due to Malaria! The U.S. got rid of the Moskitos and solved the issue.
There were thousands of deaths from malaria
Between the 1880s & 1910s many great advancements were made in disease control & treatment. Likewise with sanitation & public health.
Almost 30,000 dead. But your $1 Chinese trinket is still only $1 and you get it pretty quickly so it was definitely worth it.
@@winstonwolff Cynical, but fair. Now, where's my latest USB-powered tea-warmer??
Sailed through several times ….still amazes me the sheer spectacle and engineering feat 🇬🇧
It's incredibly small for 2024
Been through it many times.
The ladies at Panama City know me well
Cool.👍
The train from Colon to Panama City is a great ride. Great views of the Canal as the pretty much parallel each other.
And it was all built without computers. How impressive is that?
The best book ever about the engineering, history, and politics of the Panama Canal is called "The Path Between the Seas." It's a long read but fascinating. I read it shortly before a Panama Canal cruise and seeing it in person really brought home what a staggering achievement it really was.
I have read that book too, it is as you say fascinating.
Read that years ago, excellent information that was not found before the internet.
Stupid Carter gave it away !
@@vicm6561 Stupid comment, US lease had ran out so Panama got THEIR canal back
Ordered the book after reading your comment. Thanks 👍🏻
A quick correction, the french started the project, not the US. But that was a economic failure. American bought it of the french, and took a different aproch, with locks. That was a success.
What was the French method? (compared to lochs)
Thumbs up for a concise presentation of the contenders. None of the options would 'replace' the Panama canal, but would augment it. I've run some numbers on the rail option. It adds too much infrastructure, labor, rail, rail maintenance and fuel costs, as well as delays, not to mention engaging multiple ships to do what is otherwise done by one, to be cost competitive with just keeping good on one ship before being unloaded. What about dredging the Panama? Each meter of height reduction of the transit relative to the oceans reduces the canal outflow by ~4%, and that dredging need only be done at the shallower chokepoints. Yes, it's only an aid, not a solution. But the same applies to the rail alternatives
I look at this and think "these country spanning projects cost less than installing light rail in my city".
With all of the money being sent to Ukraine, several of these alternatives could have been built.
@Urbicide I am in favor of Ukrainians not getting genocide by Russia.
Also, isn't most of what is sent by the USA at least old surplus military gear that would have been a pain to maintain/decommission?
@@HistoryVideoGamesMiscStuffNot only that but the money stays mostly in the USA, as the weapons systems, etc. are made by American workers in America soil by American companies.
@@HistoryVideoGamesMiscStuffno some is state of the art. The ATACMS missiles system is the latest and greatest. We provide the targeting date or the Ukrainians. Also zero oversight of how the money is spent. Zero
I know right. That will never pay for itself like the old privately operated street car systems did
** BREAKING NEWS **
While the French started constructing a canal on the isthmus of Panama they were unable to finish, because of a few issues, but the recurring problem of malaria was the main one. The United States then acquired the land, solved the problem of malaria; then proceeded to construct the Canal we know today (minus the expansion by the Panama Government).
Except that it was Colombia at the start. The US fomented a revolution that created Panama and gave the US rights to the zone in which to build the canal.
@@empice2k ignoramus comment. the USA pushed a rebellion and installed a puppet government and LEASED the land …
The French (Ferdinand deLessops) was responsible for building the Suez Canal. It was a dredging operation. Sea level to sea level. He applied the same technique to the Panama Canal. It was a massive failure. Seasonal rains kept collapsing the diggings. The geography of the land was not flat. When we had finally taken over, he managed to excavate about 1/3. It was determined that a lock and dam system was required to make it work.
@@icls9129 Yes that's right. And the people of that area, that we now call Panama, are much better off.
Gin and Tonic is a good antidote for malaria. Ask the Brits who lived in Southern Africa!!
Don't tell us about the history of the canal, we know it ... tell us, as the title suggests ... The future of the Panama canal !!!
But the AI writer knows soooo much about the history.
If you don't like it, make your own video and STFU.
Trump says he wants to take it back from Panama because they're overcharging, also running a very poorly, lack of maintenance etcetera.
@@perry5598 Not only are none of those reasons true, but he says crap like that all the time about nearly everything. He'll praise someone one day and a week later he fires the person with a hailstorm of insults and claiming never to have known the guy. He said the NY Times was "failing" all the time while it's readership was expanding. I'm at the point where I just hit the mute button every time he shows up on my TV.
@@SmilingIbis All those reasons are true. Send the Marines immediately, we want our canal back now.
Mexico's rail option is probably the best. On the Asia side they do turnarounds in 8 hours. Modern container shipping is fast in every way. It won't replace the Panama canal. Panama has a huge capacity, even at 60% of typical. Mexico won't replace the canal. What it will do is break the monopoly. The client cost will have to be figured out in time. It will probably be slightly higher than the canal. However, Panama's days of high robber Baron behaviour will be over. It may be worth it, just for that.
why not just unload the containers, unload the contents, hand carry them across the continent with cheap labor, reload the containers, put them on 3 ships the capacity of the first ship and now everyone has a job
@@davekessler8270 Environmentally, it’s not a sound plan. There is already a corridor carved out along the existing canal. Railroads are totally inefficient, outdated, and slow. The railroad was built in the 1800s. The real question is: When is America going to build a modern and efficient infrastructure? Still using outdated inefficient modes of transportation will bring future economic hardship. Refusing to update all modes of infrastructure and transportation will only lead to more issues like the canal problem.
Try drone cargo ships. See the driverless taxi's for an example on that, try a water fueled engine, or a wnd turbine since it makes its own wind!
@@CodyAmador-u1t some good ideas, we have the technology let’s use it for the greater good of all Americans
@QuantumTime-pc9ts when is America going to build... It's part of Panama. Remember, Carter gave it back. Except there is an option for America to take it back, which hopefully Trump will.
I love all the photo footage of the "Columbia River/gorge in this video... In the U.S.!
Colombia, Columbia - same thing for a UA-cam documentary. Is Our Children Learning?
@@PaulJurczak I don't care about the spelling, just the geography. When you are talking about Central & South America... Oregon & Wasington are totally opposite.
@@ivanivonovich9863 That was exactly my point. One letter difference means a few thousand kilometers distance.
@@PaulJurczak I guess I have to blame "Grammarly" then. That or "Spell Check."
I've sailed through both multiple times and I love the lock system on the Columbia best. I also thought we would capsize coming out of Astoria so it will forever live in my mind. Beautiful area in our own USA.
The French were the first to attempt to build the Panama Canal, starting in 1881 not USA.
and failed.
Yes, but almost none of what the French dug was used by the Americans. In fact, the two plans diverged a lot. The French wanted to dig straight down to create a canal without locks. The Americans realized that was never going to work and only removed enough earth to to make it feasible with locks.
They failed like always.. America is taking it back
and usa handled the sickness from mosquitos etc. so the canal could move foreward. that was a hugh thing
It was the French who took over Vietnam too…..and Korea…..what a bunch of tools…who is the biggest loser
The canal can be easily saved! Just pump the water through the locks instead of letting it flow out to sea!!! This is a no brainer!!!
How would that work exactly? The water going out to sea is what the boats float on.
I immediately thought the same thing, just pump freshwater back into the lake and saltwater into desalination plants to make drinking water and freshemwater reserves. Leaving the lakewater alone. The clean drinking water can be used for drinking and the salt brine could be evaporated into sea salt. The can sell the clean drinking freshwater and the salt to mitigate costs.
@trollbot3728 Isn't the lake saltwater, already?
@NarwahlGaming think parts of it are brackish, but it's fed by rain. The lake sits above sea level and I watched a video about catching Peacock Bass there which are freshwater.
@@trollbot3728 Ah, Ok. I just figured it had all mixed together by now.
Thanks for the info!
Nothing will be replaced, but upgraded and new innovations will arise just like in the examples on the video.
I remember when Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal. At the time Jimmy became the worst President. FJB has replaced him.
It was never American
I'm just really glad that other shipping options are coming about. It would suck if we lost use of it completely.
I wonder how many Brits got a similar shock to me when you discussed the potential cost of the Nicaragua proposal and presenting the $64.5bn cost as being so massive. That really was a bit of a wake up call when I put it into a UK context with a recent Guardian article last week reporting that the latest cost estimates for the scaled back HS2, just the 230km of track between London King’s Cross and Birmingham, now “could pass £80bn” (just over $100bn at today’s exchange rates).
Even if the Nicaragua canal came in at 50% over budget (maybe partly to mitigate environmental impact and ensure appropriate compensation for affected communities) it would still be slightly cheaper than a new railway line between London and Birmingham. With the downward effect a new mega-canal could have on global shipping prices, something that should feed into global trade benefits, I suspect that might have a somewhat bigger global impact than shaving about 25 minutes off the journey time between 2 UK cities that aren’t that far apart in the first place.
the $64.5bn cost is way under the true cost it would be ... to have a canal that can compete with the Panama Canal you would have to expend upward of $500bn and pretty much bank roll the entire venture as if you try and charge more than the Panama Canal you would not get the customers .
I thought the same as you when I heard that. 🤔
Whats another 60 billion? US has already squandered 100s of billions in Ukraine for nothing.
@lok777 wasn't for nothing, it was to get a worse deal than was on the table right after the invasion in terms of Russian land concessions, and to erase an entire generation of ukrainian men...
crossing the terrain of the Sierra madre with reliable mass rail will be a major challenge. corruption will be another.
Mexico already finished some of the Maya Train routes, they can do it, the new government is not has corrupt has you think, the previous administrations were intimidated by the USA "interests" tactics, not anymore, they're getting things done now, the money is going for infrastructure projects, a lot of right-wing people in the USA don't want Mexico to be successful... Don't watch too much FOX News, the Propaganda Network.
Great video. I've learned so much. Gotta get home and practice.
Great analysis. Thank you.
Experience shows that often it is paradoxically the most ambitious, most expansive, plan that wins
1:10 About 5% of the world’s trade… based assumedly on merchandise value…? But “world’s trade” includes, what, everything from air freight, to ships between Asia and either the Western US or Europe? Does that include truck shipments on land? For a comparison, how much goes through the Suez Canal?
Panama had the first railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific thanks in part to the gold rush in California (49'rs). Greetings again from Panamá.
It wasn't Panama, it was the US. Panama couldn't build a horse barn at the time.
Panama wasn't even a country until the US stepped in and gained their independence from Columbia.
Hi from Florida. I visited Panama in '99. Beautiful country
@@zakglove6536 That's true. We positioned battleships off the coast of Colombia overnight. Surprise...
@@zakglove6536🤔 like they “gained” more than half of Mexico, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, etc like DJT used to say “we took it”
Video starts at 4:25
100% sure that the Mexican railway would be the best !
One thing to consider is that global trade has existed largely due to the largess of the US Navy guaranteeing safe passage to vessels not aligned with her enemies. Since COVID, and since the growing backlash against Chinese trade practices, along with the US Navy's downsizing since the Cold War, global trade will likely look very different in the next 20 years than it did in the previous 20 years.
Water is back to normal.
Water is never normal. It's always very special. If you were on the desert, you'd realize the value of the stuff. Bah-humbug.
Yeah, but the fees don't go down. Thats why Trump deems it to be Anti US
@@kylorokx1552 when does fees/prices of anything go down? when everyone is buying it, or when nobody is buying? more over, prices almost never go down unless there's a new technolgy, new fashion... when something is obsolete
fuck water
BS is not raining
One thing I don't understand is why the locks of the canal rely on fresh water resevoirs instead of just pumping sea water from either side of the channel. Seems like it would be way more reliable and not give a shit about drought unlike the current system.
Because of the lake in the middle the ships go through. There can’t be any seawater at that level, otherwise it will pollute the lake and destroy the ecology of the lake, as well as making it unusable for drinking water.
It could have something to do with putting salt water into a freshwater environment.
pumping water uphill is hard
because the lakes used to store the water that runs the system also provide drinking water to the local cities and towns.
my question as well.. two giant oceans on both sides and they can't figure it out??
Costa Rica had a railroad and still has the right of way for a railroad from Limon on the carribean to Caldera on the pacific, it just needs to be rebuilt.
But the Costa Rican big road transport companies (of goods and people) will never allow it. This is how the railways were gradually lost in Costa Rica, with the approval or help of many politicians. Really sad.
@@JS-ip8xm True. Another example of a political travisty.
Transloading a ship to rail takes a lot of time and has to be done twice,much less efficient and cost would be far higher.
Ship
Train
Truck
Plane
That’s the order of efficiency of ton per mile transportation.
How long is distance between Limon and Caldera? What would be the cost to rebuild this railway?
@jimmyjimenez03 The train still runs from Limon to Siquires and from San Jose to Caldera, so from San Jose to Siquires is about 50 miles. The main problem is earthquake damaged bridges. I imagine the entire line would neen maintanence. I think the emtire line is about 200 miles.
Crazy the timing this video is release with the current event.
Tatum Lake is now back to normal, everything looks good.
wow, Greenland and Panama must be very important topics, based on the number of people discussing them late on Christmas Eve.
Trump
Former and future President Trump has been talking about both in recent days. He claims that Panama is over charging the USA for ships passing through the canal and that Panama has subcontracted the operation of the canal to the Chinese. Further, he thinks there may be a legal claim for the USA to take back ownership of the canal. Panama says they are not going to give it up.
As for Greenland, it has been of strategic military importance to the USA since before WW2, perhaps even going back to WW1. While the USA has been able to maintain military bases and intelligence gathering facilities there, Trump has said he would like to purchase Greenland from Denmark. Denmark has laughed at the idea and said they are not interested.
Could soon become theatres of war, if we are to believe Trump.
@fleece192 impeach-monkey
"Number of people", who would drink from a bottle of bleach if there wasn't a warning printed on it.
Ricky Gervais
Mexico's rail line system is secondary for cross shipping between the oceans. Their main objective is manufacturing and assembly plants built near the main rail lines to effect exporting products made in Mexico via Atlantic and/or Pacific oceans.
Mexico will use the money earned from trans shipment to build out manufacturing/assembly to lower the unemployment rate and in time increase overall incomes.
my grandfather worked on this then surveyed for the next canal in nicaragua in the 20s. lots of malaria. im proud his work still remains and is used. but in afghanistan they still get water in a village from a well made by the greeks, as in Alexander the Great, so it has a ways to go. Another canal wouldn't hurt.
If climate change is responsible for the lowest lake water level in 60 years, what was responsible for the low water level 60 years ago when CO2 levels in the atmosphere were much lower? I am against high levels of CO2 in our atmosphere but want logical arguments.
hmmn very informative video and thumbs up like it and i've subscribe it now. your amazing bro.
Back in the 1980s, it was suspected a ship from the Pacific Ocean dumped its bilge water into the Atlantic Ocean and the diadema urchin was progressively wiped out northward to the Florida Keys. This urchin normally ate algae off of the reefs; without it, the reefs were overgrown and coral was choked out. Air travel and inter-ocean travel has increased the spread of disease. Another factor to consider.
The solution is very simple. Build a piping system to supply the locks with salt water instead of using up the fresh water.
Yes ... THIS !
"Easier said than done. Sea water has corroding effect. The canal is based on the water of Lake Gatun, and mixing sea water into it will have environmental disaster. Although one would think it's near the ocean, but it's still miles away, which makes the logistics complicated and expensive." brandonchan8255
@@tradersnorbit he said fill the lochs with sea water not the lake. The water isn’t miles away it’s in the canal on the other side of the loch. How about recycling the water drained from the loch?
Half baked genius
@@tradersnorbit 'Easier said than done'? Really? Wow, your comment is clearly based on a deep analysis.
France started the build in 1881. Earliest plans are from 1534 and the Holy Roman Empire. Weird to exclude these facts in a video like this and would have been prudent details to include... 🤔
Is it just me, or have others noticed that the background music often completely overcomes the narration? I haven't read more than a few of the newer comments, but others may have observed this issue. The video is excellent, and I learned a lot from having watched it. Thanks MegaBuilds!
Nice shot of the Columbia River at 6:03.
The Columbia River between Oregon and Washington state.
The North Arctic shipping route will be used more in the future.
Until the temperature drops by a few degrees, it doesn’t take much.
The AI narrator is getting better but when it pronounced Nicaragua that was a dead giveaway.
Humans can do this too but better.
I’ve heard speakers from the UK pronounce Nicaragua this way… I’m thinking this might be an actual person 🤪
@user-pl3lo8cc8y It's the lack of breathing too while talking.
@6:16 that is N0T South America!!!! That is in North America!!! 4000 miles away from Columbia!
If any country has the Chinese build a canal it will never function properly.
They can build it cheaper but the costs of constant repairs from their shabby construction will cost more than having the U.S. build it.
I am so tired of drought or other infrequent weather events being blamed on climate change even on this video right around the 4 minute mark It states The climate change is going to make an end to the Panama canal but it doesn't hold up to scrutiny, Even in the video it states that there was a drought of the same severity approximately 60 years ago...
Droughts happen there is no scientific evidence of droughts happening with more frequency in the historical norms and In all reality a majority of the world we don't have records dating back far enough to get an accurate representation of what the normal is when it comes to long term weather events.
This goes in California, New York, Europe and China and every country in between.
6:05.......that's the Columbia River. And...how do you give a brief history of the canal and not onw word about the French??
The Trade Ways will Change. Straight from China to Peru Mega Port for South America and from China straight to Mega Port El Salvador for Central America. Los Angeles Megaport San Francisco Megaport. Straight from China to North America. Panama Canal not needed.👍❤️🌹
You don't get the point of the video, is not about Asian coming to USA or central America, is about connecting the two oceans shipping, if you talk about Peru Chinese port that's on Pacific, so still need to cross to Atlantic, Peru port is useless on this, unless you make a canal crossing the whole south America which is the worst option. I don't see Peru being huge option to join oceans or replacing USA ports even, because why you will go to Peru when you can just go to USA Pacific cost ports directly? Besides Trump administration will tax all Chinese things coming from ports no matter is from china, Salvador, Mexico or Peru
@Javier77040 my Point is. The Trade Ways are Changing. Direct Connection China Peru Mega Port South America and El Salvador Mega Port Central America. USA is sidelined. Europe sidelined. Panama Canal lost its importance. USA lost its importance and Europe lost its importance. Thats my Point.
@@willeisinga2089❤nailed it ❣️ BTW who needs a bully on the playground 🤷♀️
Your presentation is based on the proposition that trade volume will increase. What if consumption decreased and manufacturing decentralized?
Considering that world population has likely peaked, that's not an unreasonable question.
Name a period in time where this occurred.
Go!
@@euroe12
World population has probably peaked?
Then condom manufacturing reduces due to lack of a work force by your logic.
When condom production goes down pregnancies will increase.
You sir are an idiot.
World population has peaked 😂
Hahahahahaha!!
@@guybeingaguy
WTO: "...in value terms, merchandise trade fell 5% in 2023".
Industrial decentralized manufacturing is a future developing process. A good example is 3d printing. Combine this with just in time manufacturing. Robotics are also an added feature.
@@chrisconklin2981with tariff wars trade will slow
I have the solution for crossing the Isthmus of Panama with ship cargo. Cargo would be placed on removable ship decks that unload onto massive railroad cars that use a new larger rail system. The ships accepting removable deck sections would be unified in size to accomodate transporting ship cargo decks. Ships ready for loading would sit in loading slips and the decks would approach from the rear and slide over the ships inorder to be lowered onto the ship.
Went through or cross doing my time in the NAVY. Awesome experience, Got my Ditch Certificate. A NAVY thing
How is the water getting shallower? Everyone is complaining about the rising oceans due to melted Arctic ice.
Been there. They use water from natural lakes in th high lands because they have lots of rain but they have extended the width of the canal and put more locks in and the lakes can’t keep up with the extra demand
Panama should continue to work on improvements while Nicaragua builds a new canal too. This would bring down the total cost with competition.
Thank you for saying this I was going to mention that. And your 👍
Probably more accurate to say augmented instead of replaced.
Never happen
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The UK has HS2 rail planners available to help ensure costs don't spiral out of control on those rail projects.
The Panama Canal was STARTED by FRANCE!!!
It doesn't count unless you finish it.
And did virtually nothing lol...
Abandoned is a better term.
And they failed miserably.
France gave up
The Mexican and Colombian plans for a rail link really miss out on stressing their ability to be a highly efficient alternative to the US mega ports on the East Coast and Gulf Coast, especially for smaller secondary US ports and Caribbean island ports as loads can be split and sent on smaller vessels from the Mexican Caribbean facing port. It avoids congestion at the Panama Canal, and avoids US port handling fees and US customs.
You work with Chima, and they own you.
So does any superpower
How? Please elaborate. If you don't have the funds and finances to improve your infrastructures or facilities to improve your county's economy, you rather don't want to work with China? You think the Americans or other past colonalist countries won't exploit you? Why do you think almost all African countries sign up for the BRI? You think the Africans are stupid and go all their way out to be exploited by China? Don't be naive.
usa is no different
Work with the US and they own you. No difference, except China won't try to overthrow your government or interfere in your political system. They're about business, not military domination.
You work with Trump, he owns you!
I thought about a massive "train" that can load ships out of the water and transport them to the other side. I know that now that's just a dream. But imagine!
Nicaragua was the originally proposed canal location before Panama
I noticed you using Oregon state land escape to say this is columbia .were the train was running next to a river that place is Oregon.
ColOmbia
"Where" and "were" are not interchangeable. I am aware that predictive text doesn't know the difference!
You left out construction of a sea-level canal at Panama. If the existing canal is abandoned, a sea-level replacement becomes a possibility.
It was always my understanding that a sea level canal is not possible due to the difference in tides at each end.
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Upgrade what you have. Its a no-brainer, and a major environmental winner.
The point is not only the actual benefits of the canal, it is the nation security against China. This is more important than anything else.
I still South American options problematic, theft and cargo security against smuggling, all types, might be a very big problem. Thank you.
Exaggerated B.S.
The best solution is to deepen the canal, and make it a Sea level canal. The only issue there is the potential for invasive species to go either way as well.
People in Panama use the water from the main lake for drinking and all other needs. They will lose their source of water if the canal goes down to the sea level.
This was the original French plan, and it was scrapped because it would have never worked. Even today, it is unrealistic to make such a deep cut through the isthmus like that.
Also, even though this video was posted one day ago, the canal's water levels have been restored back to normal, and the canal has been back to normal operating tempo for months now. There have been several years throughout its history where the canal has had to reduce operating temp due to lack of rainfall, but it has never lasted more than a year, and the canal has always been able to return to optimal tempo.
Just wait for 'global warming' to raise sea levels. Problem solved!
The lake is almost thirty meters higher than the ocean. The cost of doing that would be prohibitive, not to mention that the canal would need to be closed during the construction.
@@operator0 It can work in todays political climate. The Panamanians are making a wider canal to handle bigger ships. All while the canal is operating. There is no reason to have to close the canal just to dredge it.
How could there be a shortage of water 3:17??? We have climate change!! Ice caps are melting. LOL
Exactly
There no climate change you fell for that lie get smarter
I was going to ask that as well. Which is it? The sea is going down or up due to global warming?
No. The science says we are consuming water faster than it's being produced. Globally. If the climate cry babies were smart they would be pushing for break throughs in desalination.
No idea why
YES! Time to replace the Panama Canal! Great help for MEXICO!
If Trump can't get the Chinese controlled Panama canal back, he should buy and build another route, this time, making it impossible for democrats to give it away.
“More viable due to climate change”, he speaking of an Arctic route. Has this narrator researched the amount of ice in the Arctic of late? I doubt it but he parrots those of the BBC, et al.
Alluring arctic channel on UA-cam almost couldn’t get thru the NW passage this summer. More ice than ever,
Each transit flushes fresh water into the ocean.
you mean like a river.
That is where most fresh water goes...
Just recycle the water with pumps! Problem solved!!!
@@garybulwinkle82 They do as much as possible but ships have to float on water all the time so in the lower locks salt and fresh water have to mix.
@@garybulwinkle82 LOL, that would take enough energy to power the US Cities of NY, Chi-town, LA, Hot Lanta and Des Moines. In other words spending ten years building nuclear power plants. The Canal would have to charge millions per crossing to pay for that multi billion investment. Plus the 5 to 10 years it takes to build the plant. Sounds to me like problems just beginning! Especially considering the escalation of portage fees would cause prices to rise all over the world!
I remember reading in a Popular Science magazine many years ago a proposal to use nuclear bombs to make a sea level channel. Interesting but scary!
Yep, that article was in the late 70's!
"ATOMS FOR PEACE" project
Shush! That will be Trumps next plan.
@@JohnThacker-o6k Naw, Greenland first 😆
The thing that amazed me in this video was seeing that there is a 30m difference in elevation between the east and west coast of Panama.
Not that I've ever researched it but, I always thought water was self levelling, whilst taking into account gravitational pull, including water on the planets surface, but obviously not.
"Water is drying up."
Next month.
"The rains have flooded the rivers."
Idk, like a desalination plant that pumps directly into the reservoirs would also help lol
That would require massive power sources
@@jimpad5608
And waste.
Witnessed one being cleaned on a small private Bahamian island.
Salt, calcium, magnesium and other stuff I can’t sphell.
The lake is full today Dec 23, 2024. They are looking to deepen the lake to increase capacity.
@@lelenbates3367
I’m in south Florida. Our shipping ports dredge the channels often.
Sounds like a great start, if not a new way the problem
is going to have to be dealt with.
I’m an American, so I’m too lazy to know about all the water problems the canal is having👍🍺
@@lelenbates3367
Engineers can calculate the volume of water they are needing so remove that amount as quickly as you can.
Now you have a new little government department to fund, but adding up the numbers it’s nothing.
Equipment, personnel and the process will be a one time investment.
It’s the only way to solve the problem on all fronts👍
Give a stoner some weed and no way to smoke it he suddenly becomes a damn good engineer 👍
Rail can't cut it. Canal, or shut it. Trans shipping containers to rail and back, is the breaker.
Sailing around the South American continent is a long distance. Unloading and loading all of the cargo from one ship to another ship could still be more efficient, although definitely a nuisance...
@@markmcla Costs more to unload then yard for transfer onto trains, move trains to other coast, then reverse the procedure. Plus you need extra ships, on that coast.
Sailing around takes more time, but is less cost, in the final count.
I think Panama should install nuclear pumps and use sea water to fill the locks!
I mean why wouldn't you use seawater with an ocean on either side of the canal ?
Lake Gutan is fresh water needed for drinking. Pumping sea water in would contaminate it and probably kill everything living in it
@@jeffreyhusack2400
Perfectly reasonable solution. Get the Dutch involved. They know a thing or two about managing the levels of massive amounts of water. lol
Easier said than done. Sea water has corroding effect. The canal is based on the water of Lake Gatun, and mixing sea water into it will have environmental disaster. Although one would think it's near the ocean, but it's still miles away, which makes the logistics complicated and expensive.
@brandonchan8255 something I didn't know thank you for the information
To pump enough water to entirely support the Panama Canal, estimate -
~220 million ton of shipping per year
So 220mill ton water displacement x 2 and round up for capacity growth, leakage and Canal evaporation. -->
~500 million ton water
Power required to pump is approximately 4,666,000 Watts, or about 4.67 MW (megawatts).
So two Nuclear Power Stations @ 2.5 megawatt ~ $40-50 mill USD
The sooner that restrictions prevent or reduce the mega container ships, mostly filled with Landfill commodities, the better.
It needs to be a lockless canal
Tidal forces would be crazy. The Caribbean Sea (Atlantic) and Pacific on either side of Panama are not is stasis with each other. Oceans bulge, winds and tides tend to push eastward due to lunar pull and the earths rotation.
Go tell that to the mountains !
Since America built the most significant portion of this enormous project, ships coming from and to America should not have to pay for this. We spent an absorptive price in $$$$ and in our lives to make this happen! That is the least that Panama could do. The US signing ownership to Panama was a HUGE mistake. Or let the US fix and run the canal as they had done up to 1999 under Bill Clinton.
What lives? At most you lost 150 american citizens. The bulk of the workers was made from locals, caribean people and asians.
Wouldn’t it be better to link high speed railway between USA 🇺🇸 east and west coasts ?
It adds another link in the chain and everyone want their profits !
At a thousand times the cost of all these proposals put together.
No.
There were some nice pictures of our trains up here in the Columbia Gorge !
Turn the Rio Grande into an American Canal. What a wall it could be. What a transport saving it would be.
Need to have some significant security plans to rail products across MX.
I thought with all the glaciers melting the sea level would get higher. That's what all the climate scientists had to say.
The climate may be changing, but most of the information put out by the biased known nothing Media is BS.
I can't say what I really think of your misconception. I will just inform you that the water level drop is from the freshwater lake, not sea level. Watch it again without preconceptions about climate change and sea level rise. If you doubt sea level rise, go spend a week in Miami Beach and watch the streets flood regularly and ask the shop owners what they observe.
The americans didn't came out with the idea they just finished the work that the British and the French started and was half way through before they got in.
Right, we succeeded where France and the British failed. It's ours if we want it, brah.
Just like WWII when the Americans finished off the Germans when France and the British couldn’t. Americans are always having to clean up everyone’s mess.
That Panama canal has the best chance to replace the Panama canal.
One of the options is recycling most of the water for the locks. Currently the locks are gravity fed, which wastes a lot of water.
Load the ship then unload at east mexico then train then load again on a different ship? WTH! just dig a new canal
Pipe dream ..yapping..Panama coulddo the same at 10 % of the cost
Yes, the logistics just don't add up. the biggest ships can carry 24000 containers, the biggest trains can carry 240 containers, 100 massive trains lining up for one ship?
Have to have a massive yard to line them all up and, for efficiency, the trains would be loaded as they are unloaded for the return journey, otherwise they would be going back empty, so just the organisation and timing would be an impossible nightmare.
It would be able to handle the very largest ships which the Panama Canal cannot and the trains would be made up of one type of cargo thereby simplifying the operation. Not one triage but several. Not impossible.
@@JudasBytes Boss you have no idea of shipping ..20.000 containers to ship by train across panama..one boat..multiply that by 40 per day ..and tell me how much train and tracks you need...to ease up your poor brain ...why has it not been done.....trains dont like mountains..especially ones that have to offload a 20000 TEU container ship.....the longest train dont carry 100 containers and that's on flat land or nearly flat
@@SaintKimbo can the biggest ships traverse the canal?
The lake is full. The Rest is Just talk.
You left out the #1 Panama Canal replacement. Mexico's Inter-Oceanic Rail. Better, faster, cheaper.
He didn’t. Are you good? 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
The first solution was ….the Mexican train
The sea-level design by the French would not have had the water problem
Yet it became impossble at that time and its still not worth it. The entire lake is 30meters over the ocean level (almost 100ft), clearing that amount of earth while at the same time preventing the land in the sides from caving in is amost an impossible task. Also, the lake is used as a water reservoir for the city and the entire ecosystem is full of endangered species that would be destroyed if salt water is added in the lake.
Build a high-speed Mag-Lev rail line parallel with the canal. It could have speeds of 500 kms/hr and there could be 1-10 trains side by side as necessary. This would be doable and very profitable.