Nicaragua has announced plans to build a waterway linking the Pacific and Atlantic that would carry bigger ships than the existing Panama Canal. President Enrique Bolanos said the new route - which ...

Nicaragua unveils the route of the inter-oceanic canal linking the Atlantic and the Pacific it is planning to start building later this year. BBC Homepage Skip to content ...

Nicaragua has announced the route of a new £23 billion canal that it hopes will break Panama’s monopoly on crossing between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans. Digging a 173-mile-long canal ...

In Nicaragua, preliminary work has begun on a canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This canal will be three times the length of Panama's and will cut through forests, wetlands and a ...

Nicaragua unveils the route of the inter-oceanic canal linking the Atlantic and the Pacific it is planning to start building later this year.

This is certainly not the first time that Nicaragua has heard proposals for a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Panama is holding a referendum on expanding its 90-year-old canal The idea ...

The proposed route of the Nicaragua Canal. Map by Ekem licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Many predict that the new canal plan, ...

The proposed canal would pass through Lake Nicaragua, Central America’s largest lake, and will be between 230 meters and 520 meters (755 feet to 1,706 feet) wide and 27.6 meters (90 feet) deep ...

The proposed canal would pass through Lake Nicaragua, Central America's largest lake, and will be between 230m and 520m wide and 27.6m deep, said HKND engineer Dong Yunsong.

A Nicaraguan committee approved a proposed route on Monday for a $40 billion (23.35 billion pound) shipping channel across the Central American country that would compete with the Panama Canal.

Plans for a 300-kilometre waterway joining the Pacific and Atlantic oceans need independent environmental assessment, urge Axel Meyer and Jorge A. Huete-Pérez.

[SANTIAGO] The Interoceanic Canal that will run through Lake Nicaragua could kill life in the vast lake and have other serious effects on the country’s environment and economy unless safeguards are ...