• The proposed railway would connect Brazil to a new port on Peru’s Pacific coast, creating a trade route with China that would allow it avoid routes going through the Panama Canal and around the southern tip of South America.
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      15 days ago

      Rail is pretty hard to build and operate through the Andes and can’t reach the scale of sea freight, which could be achieved through a Nicaragua canal, but fine, it is not meant to compete with the Panama canal, so no need to build another canal.