Dive into one of the most ambitious and ultimately failed infrastructure projects of the modern era , Nicaragua’s plan to build its own canal. With global shipping traffic growing at an ...

Nicaragua's ambitious $50 billion mega canal project faced significant challenges and ultimately failed. This video explores the importance of the Panama Canal and details the proposed Nicaragua ...

The idea of an interoceanic canal first arose in Nicaragua, and Panamanian literature says that the United States opted for the country, after the Frenchman Philippe Bunau-Varilla, in June 1902, ...

The nation of Nicaragua in Central America had once embarked on an ambitious plan to construct a canal. Not just any waterway, but one rivalling the crucial Panama canal. It has been a decade since ...

Nicaragua’s congress, controlled by President Daniel Ortega, repealed a law which had given a Chinese investor a concession of up to 100 years to build and operate a canal between the Pacific ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — After nearly a decade, Nicaragua's congress finally canceled on Wednesday a controversial canal concession granted to a Chinese businessman that critics said endangered the ...

The Canal project was approved in July 2012 by the National Assembly, which had a Sandinista majority, and passed the “Legal Regime Law of the Grand Interoceanic Aquatic Canal of Nicaragua and the ...

Nicaragua's congress has canceled a controversial canal concession, granted years ago to a Chinese businessman, that would have linked the country's Pacific and Atlantic coasts.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — After nearly a decade, Nicaragua’s congress finally canceled on Wednesday a controversial canal concession granted to a Chinese businessman that critics said endangered ...

The project envisages a canal about 278 kilometers long, with entrances at the Brito River on the Pacific coast and near the mouth of the Punta Gorda River, on the Caribbean. The route would cross ...