Engineers once planned to move more earth than any project in history—enough to bury Manhattan under 18 meters of rock—to carve a canal five times longer than Panama’s. With locks large enough to fit ...

The Rama travel their coastal homeland with wooden dories and small motorboats, which would be eclipsed by megaships traversing the Nicaragua Canal. Emily Liedel This article is from Hakai Magazine, ...

More than 150 years ago, U.S. businessmen and politicians plotted the creation of a canal through the isthmus nation of Nicaragua that would link the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Now, according to ...

The canal law says that the government can expropriate any land deemed necessary for the Chinese canal, which will cut a 13-mile wide swath through the middle of the country, affecting 12 ...

(AP) When President Daniel Ortega granted a Chinese telecommunications executive exclusive rights to develop a $40 billion canal through Nicaragua and operate it for 100 years, his administration ...

AMSTERDAM (AP) – Two Dutch companies say they have been awarded a $720,000 ((EURO)587,000) contract by the Nicaraguan government to study the feasibility of building a rival to the Panama canal that ...

BEIJING — The Chinese businessman hired to plan and perhaps build a Nicaraguan rival to the Panama Canal said the ambitious project is backed by experienced consultants and is not a joke, turning away ...

(AP) Six months after the Sandinista government granted a Chinese businessman a 100-year concession to build a vast canal across Nicaragua, most of the nation is in the thrall of the imagined waterway ...

MANAGUA (Reuters) - When one of the poorest countries in the Americas and a little-known Chinese businessman said they planned to undertake one of the biggest engineering projects in history, few ...

Many hopes in Nicaragua are pinned to a plan to build a $40 billion, 173-mile route that will bring shipping from the Caribbean Sea through to the Pacific Ocean and lift the Central American country ...

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 Canal ...

In 2024, the Nicaraguan congress canceled a concession to the HKND group to build a canal. The current estimate to build the 170-mile project is about $50 billion. While this is a large investment, ...