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Por Adir Tavares
Bilionário chinês ganha na Nicaraguá concessão para construir canal rival ao do Panamá
Do Blog do Renato Pompeu
Segundo nota da agência Associated Press, reproduzida do &Newsobserver.com, em inglês, o bilionário chinês Wang Jing ganhou do governo da Nicarágua concessão para projetar e construir através do país um canal entre os Oceanos Atlântico e Pacífico, para rivalizar com o vizinho Canal do Panamá. Entretanto, a empresa chinesa vai primeiramente fazer um estudo de viabilidade econômica do novo canal e, se o resultado do estudo for negativo, ela não será obrigada a abrir o canal.
&Newsobserver.com
Nicaragua OKs rival to Panama Canal; study begins
By LUIS MANUEL GALEANO and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN — Associated Press
MANAGUA, NICARAGUA — In a matter of weeks, a little-known Chinese tycoon has hired some of the world’s top experts in mammoth infrastructure projects and pushed through Nicaragua’s congress a bill granting him the exclusive right to develop a multibillion-dollar rival to the Panama Canal.
Now, the real work begins.
Thursday’s vote may have given Wang Jing the concession to build a canal across this Central American nation, but his HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co. still has to study whether the idea is truly economically viable.
Spokesmen hired by the company say they believe that rising world trade means it is highly likely that a new canal could be profitable. Yet they acknowledge that what will be a months-long feasibility study could prove just the opposite.
The project has generated deep skepticism among independent shipping experts. At the same time, environmentalists are worried about the impact on Lake Nicaragua, the country’s primary source of fresh water.
The legislation approved by a 61-25 vote in the National Assembly dominated by President Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista Front contains no specific route for the canal and virtually no details of its financing or economic viability. It simply grants the Hong Kong-based company 50 years of exclusive rights to study the plan and build and operate a canal in exchange for Nicaragua receiving a minority share of any profits.
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