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

[garlic]

Will this be a huge white elephant project? Coupled with the water problem with Johor.. it makes for worrying reading the future of SG.

"Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has confirmed plans to relocate container terminals to the industrial hub of Tuas, on the south-western tip of the city-state.

“The port has been very successful. It is growing; it is reaching its limits. So we are building a new port in Tuas, bigger, more efficient, almost double the present capacity,” Lee said on Sunday. “And when this is done, we can move from Tanjong Pagar to Tuas.”

“Starting 2027 when the ports’ leases expire and when they move to Tuas, you will free up the prime land in Tanjong Pagar. And there we can build a Southern Waterfront City,” the Prime Minister added. He explained that the reclaimed area would stretch over 1,000 hectares from Shenton Way to Pasir Panjang."

 

[3_M]

The Kra Canal is a fool's notion. Investors can never hope to recoup the losses from building and maintaining the deep water lane. Praise be to PAP!

The consortium for the project has already formed. Why do you people still think that it too far-fetch?

http://www.kelayunhe.com/

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

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.

with the Thaksins in power in Thailand........not likely to happen........

reason is the same why last time never happen also...........

the Zionists control S'pore..........

 

[laksaboy]

Chinese shipping companies are complrtely independent of the government. There is no way the Central Government could influence shippers to use the Canal. Your over-imaginative mind will be better utilized in Jack Neo movies instead!

You must be quite daft if you think the Chinese govt will need to step in and influence shippers to use the Kra Canal. Cost savings from using a shorter route will suffice.

 

[red amoeba]

The kra canal will come there is no doubt, china in her interest will want it up to ensure supply of oil .

Unfortunately this will pose an idea for the restive Thai south rebels to target ships going thru kra unless Thai government take opportunity to quell that at one go like allowing south part to go independent

 

[Rogue Trader]

actually want to stop this project now is easy.

Singapore can play very dirty game.

1. Make more planes disappear. It is getting fashion from now on. If it can be done Singapore can copy.

2. Create tension for Chinks and USA.

3. Cause civil unrest between Singapore and Malaysia and make the region unstable.

4. After all Thailand is already unstable politically, sad more salt to the wound.

5. Anyway US broke already so come here to kahjiao a bit and and make some money from trouble.

6. In next 10-15 years too many old fuck baby boomers getting ready to die one by one, only viable biz is selling cardboard koon choy.

7. Now hiring Cheap FTs Ah Nehs so make more troubles to frighten them and auto send them back to their villages.

You think singapore can do anything like that? Maybe only Lky had the balls to play the communist threat card in the 60s. But we live in a different age now.

Singapore lost the opportunity to offer anything unique to the world and that will be our downfall.

 

[Rogue Trader]

with the Thaksins in power in Thailand........not likely to happen........

reason is the same why last time never happen also...........

the Zionists control S'pore..........

Who controls the south? I only know the Thaksins' power base is in the north....

 

[Rogue Trader]

You must be quite daft if you think the Chinese govt will need to step in and influence shippers to use the Kra Canal. Cost savings from using a shorter route will suffice.

Exactly... Ultimately profit will dictate which route ships will take. Not governments.

 

[iluvgst]

i think it's pay back time. China is planning to punish singapore economically for helping USA to spy on them based on the Snowden leaks.

 

[laksaboy]

i think it's pay back time. China is planning to punish singapore economically for helping USA to spy on them based on the Snowden leaks.

This didn't help either.

 

[mojito]

Tolls gentlemen, tolls. You think the consortium is doing charity? Dredging is free? How naive! The PAP sees all.

 

[iluvgst]

This didn't help either.

:p

"Beijing residents joke that to get a free smoke all they have to do is open their windows!" Lee said.

He then alluded to thousands of pig carcasses recently fished from Chinese rivers.

"(In) Shanghai, if you want some pork soup, you just turn on the tap," he said.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

Who controls the south? I only know the Thaksins' power base is in the north....

i wasn't aware Southern Thailand has declared full independence ?

 

[Rogue Trader]

i wasn't aware Southern Thailand has declared full independence ?

I'm talking about power base lah. You think everywhere like sinkieland, only Pap is the ruler?

 

[Bhumipon]

I read with amusement you your posts here mostly talking about building the canal by the Chinese. Has anyone thought before or mention about which country is this going to be built? China? All this big talk still has to have the approval of the Thais. Understanding the current atmosphere in Thailand this is not going to happen. The just dumped the bullet train yesterday. So ponder.

 

[red amoeba]

I read with amusement you your posts here mostly talking about building the canal by the Chinese. Has anyone thought before or mention about which country is this going to be built? China? All this big talk still has to have the approval of the Thais. Understanding the current atmosphere in Thailand this is not going to happen. The just dumped the bullet train yesterday. So ponder.

$$ speaks suppose china offer to buy up all the rice at a nice little premium n also line the pockets of yingluck n gang ?

Who is to say no ? China is doing that all over Africa

 

[The_Hypocrite]

If the kra canel is built..than this new port is white elephant...

Will this be a huge white elephant project? Coupled with the water problem with Johor.. it makes for worrying reading the future of SG.

"Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has confirmed plans to relocate container terminals to the industrial hub of Tuas, on the south-western tip of the city-state.

“The port has been very successful. It is growing; it is reaching its limits. So we are building a new port in Tuas, bigger, more efficient, almost double the present capacity,” Lee said on Sunday. “And when this is done, we can move from Tanjong Pagar to Tuas.”

“Starting 2027 when the ports’ leases expire and when they move to Tuas, you will free up the prime land in Tanjong Pagar. And there we can build a Southern Waterfront City,” the Prime Minister added. He explained that the reclaimed area would stretch over 1,000 hectares from Shenton Way to Pasir Panjang."

 

[3_M]

Tolls gentlemen, tolls. You think the consortium is doing charity? Dredging is free? How naive! The PAP sees all.

We have to get this clear that it should not be seen as a commercial project but a strategic one for china. It will no doubt be a lost making project on a commercial basis since toll couldn't go too high to justify that little time( after all a commercial vessel should be able to cover the peninsular in less than 2 days) save but chinese gov are willing to pay the difference as it concern their national security.

Let have no doubt that the project will go ahead.

 

[mojito]

We have to get this clear that it should not be seen as a commercial project but a strategic one for china. It will no doubt be a lost making project on a commercial basis since toll couldn't go too high to justify that little time( after all a commercial vessel should be able to cover the peninsular in less than 2 days) save but chinese gov are willing to pay the difference as it concern their national security.

Let have no doubt that the project will go ahead.

I have no doubt it will be loss making. After all, not every country can boast of our corruption free bureaucracy and stellar investment track record now can they? You worry too much! Our government is in good hands so the kra canal can pose no trouble at all!

 

[Tuayapeh]

I have no doubt it will be loss making. After all, not every country can boast of our corruption free bureaucracy and stellar investment track record now can they? You worry too much! Our government is in good hands so the kra canal can pose no trouble at all!

Yah yah yah you keep on mumbling to your fucking self and it will come true just like that pwabye kiah lim swee say can think he can change the economic conditions by singing his upturn the downturn (your fucking ass!) song,...

This is the real threat....as long as thaksin is kept from political power in thailand, Singapore had better have a plan b as to how they intend to stop the fucking thais from building the kra canal balls.......