China plans to build Kra Canal..end of Sinkapoor is near.

[3_M]

China Firms to Lead Canal Building in Thailand
MENAFN - - 3/13/2014 7:12:57 AM


China Firms to Lead Canal Building in Thailand

BEIJING, Mar 13, 2014 (Menafn - SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) --Thailand has had ideas to build a canal in Kra Isthmus long time ago, however, failed to implement the plan limited by labor forces and material resources.

With the progress of partnership between China and the ASEAN, Kra Canal may become reality. A work team formed by Chinese companies including Sany Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (shse:600031), Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group Co., Ltd. (XCMG) and Guangxi Liugong Machinery Co., Ltd. (szse:000528) has begun operation.

Kra Canal is situated in Indo-China Peninsula, as planned, will cut through Indian Ocean and Gulf of Thailand, lengthening 100 kilometers as longest manual canal in Asia.

After opening of Kra Canal, trades between the ASEAN and the world will no longer go through Strait of Malacca, because Kra Canal is more than 1,000 kilometers shorter and will save shipping and time costs greatly. By then, the ASEAN, China and even Japan and the whole world will benefit from the canal.

Source: www.163.com (March 13, 2014)

 

[laksaboy]

Well done. It's about damn time.

Close down the petrochem plants on Jurong Island and build another casino there.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Kra canal topic always being brought up on and off for many decades....nothing ever materialize.
Mammoth project will take many years and huge finances to complete.
I doubt it will ever even take off.

 

[laksaboy]

Kra canal topic always being brought up on and off for many decades....nothing ever materialize.
Mammoth project will take many years and huge finances to complete.
I doubt it will ever even take off.

Once upon a time policemen wore shorts and LKY had tufts of thick black hair on his head.

Times and situations change. If China has the geopolitical will to do it, nothing can stop it.

 

[GoldenDragon]

Once upon a time policemen wore shorts and LKY had tufts of thick black hair on his head.

Times and situations change. If China has the geopolitical will to do it, nothing can stop it.

By the time it's ready, unlikely for me to witness it. Grateful if some bros can bring the news and photos to my Mandai residence.

 

[Leongsam]

This is why I have always recommended cashing out while the going is good.

Regardless of whether the Kra canal eventually materialises, we all know that Singapore is not going to remain prosperous forever so take profit while you can.

 

[virus]

bangkok is a great pl to rent a room sip sip n watch sinkies screw miw no fear of being harrass

 

[yellowarse]

The money is there, the technology is there, the economic justification is there. What has been preventing the canal from materializing all these years was political goodwill within ASEAN and between Singapore & China.

Now that the Pappy govt is bursting its biceps carrying the wrong balls – that of an ageing superpower – and burning its bridges with China, and quarrelling with practically every ASEAN neighbour, I don't see any more political obstacles. Expect the Kra Canal to be up within the next 10 years.

Entrepot trade is the lifeblood of our nation, and this is another way the vile Pappies are fucking up our country. Vote 'em out.

 

[AhMeng]

Cool...Screw the PAP! I like!

 

[tanwahtiu]

I would prefer to melt the ices in the North Pole region a cheaper alternative. Melting ice are cheaper put large scale mirrors in the sky and reflect sunlight and heat back to the area it will melt the ice quick.

Still has to travel across Indian Ocean take too long?

Well done. It's about damn time.

Close down the petrochem plants on Jurong Island and build another casino there.

 

[yellowarse]

I would prefer to melt the ices in the North Pole region a cheaper alternative. Melting ice are cheaper put large scale mirrors in the sky and reflect back to the sunlight and heat to the area it will melt the ice quick.

Still has to travel across Indian Ocean take too long?

The cost-benefit ratio may not be worth it. Melting the ice cap will cause massive rising sea levels and the submergence of coastal cities throughout the world. NY, Shanghai and Singapore would be under water.

 

[tanwahtiu]

After built, it is not Malaysia Peninsula anymore but Malaysia Island?

Kra canal topic always being brought up on and off for many decades....nothing ever materialize.
Mammoth project will take many years and huge finances to complete.
I doubt it will ever even take off.

 

[greedy and cunning]

This is why I have always recommended cashing out while the going is good.

Regardless of whether the Kra canal eventually materialises, we all know that Singapore is not going to remain prosperous forever so take profit while you can.

all the while you have been trumpeting that the Scum and It's gang of sycophants are
very brilliant and did a lot to make this tiny dot a world class cuntry.

now you saying the opposite.

today you forgot your medicine ?

 

[tanwahtiu]

recreate new landscape for Waterfront resort constructions. Or rather time to turn it back to Fishing village resort Island.

The cost-benefit ratio may not be worth it. Melting the ice cap will cause massive rising sea levels and the submergence of coastal cities throughout the world. NY, Shanghai and Singapore would be under water.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

another reason for the kra delay was cause of the southern insergency. opening the canal is like a symbolic split from main land thailand but i doubt they would actually open a permanent hole just a bridge.

 

[tanwahtiu]

hey, 1 kg of ice is the same as 1 kg of liquid water.

Don't see how ice turn into liquid can cause flood elsewhere. For thousands of years ice caps in Himalaya mountains melted every year, see any new floods so far?

The cost-benefit ratio may not be worth it. Melting the ice cap will cause massive rising sea levels and the submergence of coastal cities throughout the world. NY, Shanghai and Singapore would be under water.

 

[3_M]

I agree CBA is not viable from a commercial standpoint. But Strait of Malacca is a choking point for China and she does have her strategic consideration to bypass this choking point. And the fact that we are a regional guard dog of USA does nothing to assure China that we will remain neutral. All thanks to PAP foreign policy.

In thew past why the project never took off was due to technical challenge and lack of capital. Now money is not really an issue for China as they have so much that they don't know where to spend.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Kra canal topic always being brought up on and off for many decades....nothing ever materialize.
Mammoth project will take many years and huge finances to complete.
I doubt it will ever even take off.

Well the suez and the pananma canal was completed weren't they but then these were continents ships had to sail through. Before the suez ships had to sail around the african continent. Before panama they had to sail around south america before reaching asia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal

 

[tanwahtiu]

Only Chinks can sold out anyone.

Once built Chinks can put a label there "Made in China"

The money is there, the technology is there, the economic justification is there. What has been preventing the canal from materializing all these years was political goodwill within ASEAN and between Singapore & China.

Now that the Pappy govt is bursting its biceps carrying the wrong balls – that of an ageing superpower – and burning its bridges with China, and quarrelling with practically every ASEAN neighbour, I don't see any more political obstacles. Expect the Kra Canal to be up within the next 10 years.

Entrepot trade is the lifeblood of our nation, and this is another way the vile Pappies are fucking up our country. Vote 'em out.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Guys go look at the world map and locate panama and suez at egypt. Before these canals were created ships had to sail around the entire african continent or the south american continent no wonder these canals were built one 2 centuries before and the other last century it is 21st century now remember.

Sailing through the straits of malacca doesn't seem as daunting as going around the entire continent.