Thailand Will Dominate Shipping With This New $28Bn Mega Canal
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2024
- Thailand plans to dig a canal to create a shortcut for the Strait of Malacca. This would shorten the voyage by 1200 km and save up to $350.000 per ship.
Building this channel will hugely increase Thailand's power and control over Asia and on the busiest ship routes in the World.
The Channel itself is not without controversy, however.
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It seems, this project has been proposed and scrapped a number of times. As of 2023, Thailand decided to revive the Kra Canal project, but as a land bridge, rather than a canal.
Might, maybe, perhaps.
Do a video when it's happening.
Seen it all many times!!
i'm not sure a ship can unintentionally block the strait seeing as the narrowest point is 2.8km wide...
ALOT OF TALK WITH LITTLE INFORMATION-CRAP, CRAP
If really made I am sure the Chinese phase out the Panama Canal and build a new one In South Mexico!
They already have the contract with Mexico valid for 50 years with a possible extension of another 50 years!
This Kra Canal Project in Thailand has been talked to its death many times over. Absolutely, nothing new.
Meantime, Singapore has continued to seize the advantage of more than 50 years lead time to develop its maritime port status into a premier global shipping node.
The Kra Canal Project has morphed into a Kra Landbridge: road, rail, and oil pipeline. Still at the talking stage. Fine. Go ahead. Talk somemore. With many more FTAs signed into effect, bilaterally, regionally, and between trading blocs, the maritime pie is big enough for several serious players in this region. Singapore is well-prepared and poised for the Kra challenge. No threat.
It is unlikely that Thailand would want to become so indebted to a foreign power which might underwrite the construction, whether that be China or others. China is already funding much of the fast rail routes and that debt has to be paid. Singapore would do everything in its power to stop its construction. What is bad for Singapore is not necessarily good for Thailand. The south of Thailand is also vulnerable to Muslim separatist ambitions, and a canal would create a physical barrier that would be divisive. The symbolism is important to Thais. the land around Chumphon is some of the most fertile agricultural land in Thailand. Why sacrifice that? Ranong is potentially and already a rich source of tourism and fishing. Imagine thousands of container ships going through these pristine island archipelagoes every day.