There Are MULTIPLE New Panama Canals Being Built
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We’re hearing a lot more about the Panama Canal lately regarding some presidential statements over whether the US should control it. But with cargo shipping at an all time high and still climbing, the Canal is more important than ever, and it’s also at it’s limits. For this reason there’s not just one but two new Central American canals in the works that could both speed up shipping and shift the balance of power in the world.
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https://www.freightwaves.com/news/why-the-panama-canal-is-so-important-to-trump
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us-east-coast-port-union-strike-threat-test-shippers-nerves-2024-06-13/
https://unctad.org/news/unprecedented-shipping-disruptions-raise-risk-global-trade-unctad-warns
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Intro
1:27 – The Problems With The Panama Canal
5:00 – The Nicaragua Canal
9:29 – The Interoceanic Corridor
12:06 – Back to the Panama Canal
16:00 – Sponsor – Ground News
@ians3328
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
What about just using a rail link between 2 ports. High speed rail from Texas to California.
@philtucker1224
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
Changing ALL of the locks from gravity/loss to pumped/replenish would help..
@philtucker1224
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
If they pump extra water up to the lake will it need to be fresh?
@einardbarsallo8300
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
Being built he says😂
@bettyswallocks6411
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
Those nations that would most benefit from new ‘Panama Canals’ should pay for any construction.
@bettyswallocks6411
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
Fun fact: If you travel the Panama Canal, east to west, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the general direction of travel is south-east. Don’t believe me? Look at the map.
@ramonpunsalang3397
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
An estimated 22,000 lives were lost building the Canal, not hundreds of lives
@jeffslist6878
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
Thank Trump for drawing attention to the canal
@br549-c4q
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
I'm eagerly anticipating the "Jasmine Crockett Plan"…
Thanks for weaving TDS and "Climate Change" into, yet, another useless video!
@sgb3sgb4
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
If Canada has a fleet of icebreakers the north West passage would be the most economical route.
@davechurch9354
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
Love and respect from nz ❤thank you for not being AI
@uluzistherealest
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
California eliminates the need for a canal for America, in my opinion. Everything goes to New Orleans, from there trucks and trains to California, then boom, to Asia from there. It's why I say that America needs California. California doesn't need America.
@harrystorey3699
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
Why not add pumping stations to pump some water back up the locks. It would take a lot of power, but Panama has a lot of solar power potential.
@peremees1
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
Belomor kanal was deadlier. It was basicly russian Auswitz for people extermination. Westerners have turned blind eye, because russian money, but lean on the heavier side of casualties. Not all was registered, basicly a crime scene.
@deepskyfrontier
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
6:34 yellow fever killed more people outright, with malaria coming in second. If you did survive yellow fever, you were immune thereafter. If you survived malaria, your suffering had only begun.
@highlandlab1924
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
Prison labor and time. It will take decades but any country could afford it in that part of the world.
Build canal,, ??? ,,, profit 📈
@PaulNicholson-d6t
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
We need to ask ourselves why we have to ship some things so bloody far😅
@GillesParent-j3z
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
Should they be called the Trump canal or the Epstein canal?
@harryroger1739
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
I can see He doesn't like Trump. I don't like people who push their political ideas, whether Trump or these guy.
@garneauweld1100
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
You make a statement and then you discredit it.
@KentBunn
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
They aren't "being built". They are being proposed and talked about.
And water shortages are NOT an issue for the Mexico corridor, since it's not a canal at all.
@stefanchristopher
August 7, 2025 at 12:26 pm
Exponentially… you keep using that word… I do not think it means what you think it means.
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