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Warpy

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5. I think they're looking more at oil transport than anything else

Reply to MADem (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 22, 2015, 08:54 PM

Mar 2015

The Panama Canal is too narrow and shallow and the locks too short for supertankers. It's steadily busy with smaller craft loaded with consumer goods, so there is no way to shut it down to enlarge it.

The only energy China produces itself is coal energy, and it's killing them. They desperately need a way to cut down the cost of oil and LNG transport while they wait for other energy technologies to mature.

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I think they're looking more at oil transport than anything else Warpy Mar 2015 #5

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