News / Nicaragua Canal route is unveiled – a $50bn threat to expanded Panama

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The Nicaragua government yesterday unveiled the route of its proposed canal to link the Pacific and Atlantic, saying construction could begin this December.

According to a Reuters report from the country’s capital, Managua, the 278km link would begin at the Brito River which connects the Pacific to Lake Nicaragua, Central America’s largest fresh water reserve, which vessels would then transit and then head to the Caribbean Sea port of Bluefields via the Tule and Punta Gordas rivers, requiring around 120 miles ...