Panama Canal Says China Billionaire’s Nicaragua Plan Won’t Work

China's Very Own Canal on the Doorstep of America

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Panama Canal Authority Administrator Jorge Quijano said he doesn’t expect a planned rival waterway in Nicaragua to be completed because it won’t be able to compete economically with his shipping channel.

“There’s very little hope for actually getting such a canal built because of the competitiveness of the Panama Canal,” Quijano said Thursday in Singapore, where he was attending a conference.