Nicaragua is located in the central part of Central America, with an important geographical position. Nicaragua's "canal dream" can be traced back to 2 years ago.
85%-9% of the world's cargo trade is carried out by sea. According to the forecast of authoritative companies in world shipping, the world's maritime cargo traffic will increase by 3.4% every year in 21, and the container traffic will increase by 6.8% every year in the same period. However, at present, the two most important canals in the world, Panama Canal and Suez Canal, are facing the same problem, that is, the canal channel is narrow and the tonnage of cargo ships passing through it is limited.
Take the Panama Canal as an example. At present, the largest cargo ship that can pass through Panama (a cargo ship specially built for crossing the Panama Canal) has a tonnage of only 75, tons. Although the tonnage of the post-Panama cargo ship under design can reach 15, tons, it needs to carry out large-scale reconstruction of the existing canal channel. In this case, all large or super-large cargo ships need to make a detour.
The designers of the canal plan have calculated that, taking the freight route between new york and Japan as an example, large and super-large cargo ships cannot cross the Panama Canal and Suez Canal, and the length of the route exceeds 24, kilometers, which takes 36 days. If it passes through the future Nicaragua Canal, its voyage will be shortened to 17, kilometers, and it can arrive 11 days in advance.
in September, 28, it was reported that the Panama canal will be expanded in 214, with an annual cargo capacity of 6 million tons, which can be used by the largest ships in the world. This has a big impact on the Nicaragua Canal, but even so, the Nicaraguan government still indicated that it would carry out the project. On June 13, 213, the Nigerian parliament approved the Nicaragua Canal Plan by vote. On July 7, 214, Nicaragua Canal Committee approved the route planning of the canal project. Nicaragua's canal plan came into being under this background.