China Firms to Lead Kra Canal Building in Thailand

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MENAFN - - 3/13/2014 7:12:57 AM


China Firms to Lead Canal Building in Thailand

BEIJING, Mar 13, 2014 (Menafn - SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) --Thailand has had ideas to build a canal in Kra Isthmus long time ago, however, failed to implement the plan limited by labor forces and material resources.

With the progress of partnership between China and the ASEAN, Kra Canal may become reality. A work team formed by Chinese companies including Sany Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (shse:600031), Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group Co., Ltd. (XCMG) and Guangxi Liugong Machinery Co., Ltd. (szse:000528) has begun operation.

Kra Canal is situated in Indo-China Peninsula, as planned, will cut through Indian Ocean and Gulf of Thailand, lengthening 100 kilometers as longest manual canal in Asia.

After opening of Kra Canal, trades between the ASEAN and the world will no longer go through Strait of Malacca, because Kra Canal is more than 1,000 kilometers shorter and will save shipping and time costs greatly. By then, the ASEAN, China and even Japan and the whole world will benefit from the canal.

China Firms to Lead Canal Building in Thailand | MENAFN.com

http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/2014-03-13/1119768586.html（Report in Chinese）

 

[Viva_Viet]

China is killing Singapore,Malaysia and their PDF 'friend' Indonesia with this project

 

[DarkElf]

China is killing Singapore,Malaysia and their PDF 'friend' Indonesia with this project

Singapore and Malaysia, yes. But it won't have any big negative effect for Indonesia, if anything it's going to raise Indonesia bargaining power against Singapore. Singapore big international seaport going to act as hub for Indonesia, Australia only after the canal build.

 

[shuttler]

Brilliant move！

Credit: chinainarabic.org

 

[Lux de Veritas]

It will be built. China has concern about Singapore, else such important project will be on discussion long time ago.

 

[DarkElf]

It will be built. China has concern about Singapore, else such important project will be on discussion long time ago.

Imo it's not 100% sure, after all its still depend on the project if its going to be profitable or not. Remember it cost on average 65k for using Panama Canal and 100-150k for Suez, but the saving is huge while Malacca strait only 1000 km long.

 

[Globenim]

Kra Canal is not just a matter of profitability but Chinas national security and it will improve political leverage.

In general it will lessen dependency on the Strait of Malacca .
Additional it will raise the cost to blockade Chinese trade vessels from passage to the Indian Ocean to reach the ME and Africa and lessen the likelyhood a rogue regime would even consider such a costly plan. They would have to split their forces for another path.
In case of any conflict threatening closure the passage can be much easier protected by China trough land access as long as relations with Thailand remain healthy and building the Kra Canal will have greately improved the realtion already.

On the other hand it would hurt relations with Singapore badly. A major reason why it hasn't been build yet.

The companies have however declined to be funding the project.

 

[cnleio]

China is killing Singapore,Malaysia and their PDF 'friend' Indonesia with this project

LOL, Genius.

Thailand and other North-East Asia nations also welcome this project, 2nd Energy Line is safer than only one Malacca.

 

[shuttler]

Kra Canal is not just a matter of profitability but Chinas national security and it will improve political leverage.

In general it will lessen dependency on the Strait of Malacca .
Additional it will raise the cost to blockade Chinese trade vessels from passage to the Indian Ocean to reach the ME and Africa and lessen the likelyhood a rogue regime would even consider such a costly plan. They would have to split their forces for another path.
In case of any conflict threatening closure the passage can be much easier protected by China trough land access as long as relations with Thailand remain healthy and building the Kra Canal will have greately improved the realtion already.

On the other hand it would hurt relations with Singapore badly. A major reason why it hasn't been build yet.

The companies have however declined to be funding the project.

This stragtegic move is all important for our sea route with hostile countries all closing in for their containment moves on us
Relationship with Singapore can be compensated through other means
We have given them an offshore RMB center status
Singapore is not our all weather friend anyway

I am pretty sure vietcongs will be immensely benefited by this
Look at the map

the americans wil be eyeing a base at the south-most tip or some old bases like
金兰 湾 - Camranh bay on the vietcongs coastline:

vietcongs' existing military bases

Credit: wikipedia

 

[xunzi]

We need to start negotiate an agreement with Thailand to have a military base in the Southern tip to protect the Kra Canal shipping route.

 

[Beidou2020]

Maybe this is why there has been the protests in Thailand. They were probably a CIA operation to topple the current government that has given the go ahead to build this canal and help China against US imperialism.

Wherever there is a major protest, it's most likely instigated by the Yankees for geopolitical gains.

USAID, National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, Amnesty International are behind the protests.

 

[bolo]

Maybe this is why there has been the protests in Thailand. They were probably a CIA operation to topple the current government that has given the go ahead to build this canal and help China against US imperialism.

Wherever there is a major protest, it's most likely instigated by the Yankees for geopolitical gains.

USAID, National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, Amnesty International are behind the protests.

Yes, the protests are instigated/funded by CIA terrorists. More reason to fxxk these yanks as soon as possible.

 

[BoQ77]

Thailand is the homebase of USA and Japan investment ... indeed !!
China is going to risk their security again ...

Anyone here ever visited Thailand ?

We need to start negotiate an agreement with Thailand to have a military base in the Southern tip to protect the Kra Canal shipping route.

China finding way to break through the non-allied countries, avoid Singapore, then you meet Vietnam and...
that benefit for all, but still not so good for China ...

USA would pay more attention in cooperating with Vietnam instead of Singapore, Malaysia ...
That's not our choice .. but theirs

 

[shuttler]

Maybe this is why there has been the protests in Thailand. They were probably a CIA operation to topple the current government that has given the go ahead to build this canal and help China against US imperialism.

Wherever there is a major protest, it's most likely instigated by the Yankees for geopolitical gains.

USAID, National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, Amnesty International are behind the protests.

democracy according to usa:

"Prior to the 1980s, the United States did not pursue democracy aid on a wide basis. In the past two decades, such aid has mushroomed, as part of the increased role of democracy promotion in American foreign policy. It started slowly in the 1980s then expanded sharply after 1989 with the quickening of the global democratic trend. By the mid-1990s, U.S. annual spending on such programs reached approximately $600 million and now exceeds $700 million. A host of U.S. government agencies are involved in this work—primarily the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. Information Agency (USIA—now being merged into the Department of State), but also the Departments of State, Defense, and Justice, as well as several quasi-governmental organizations (government-funded, privately run), including the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the Asia Foundation, and the Eurasia Foundation.

These organizations in turn support several dozen American groups that implement most of the U.S. democracy programs in other countries. These groups fall into several categories: nonprofit organizations largely or wholly devoted to one or more areas of democracy promotion—such as the International Foundation for Election Systems, the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the Carter Center, the American Bar Association's Central and East European Law Initiative, and the American Center for International Labor Solidarity; universities, research institutes, and policy institutes that sometimes take on democracy projects; and for-profit development consulting groups, usually Washington-based, that have added democracy work to their portfolio of development specialties, including Management Systems International, Checchi and Company Consulting, Development Associates, Chemonics International, Creative Associates International, and ARD. Some American private foundations also sponsor activities that bear directly on democratization abroad, especially relating to civil society development, though they operate separately from the world of official U.S. democracy aid.

Within this array of government, quasi-government, and nongovernment organizations underwriting or implementing democracy programs are thus many people who work substantially on democracy promotion. A core of several hundred people in key positions in those organizations drive the field, but several thousand take part on a regular basis and constitute the newly emerged and still growing community of American democracy promoters.

The reach of such assistance is broad. In 1998 the United States carried out democracy programs in more than 100 countries, including most countries in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America, as well as many in Asia and the Middle East. The current wave of democracy aid is by no means the first for the United States, as readers will see in the next chapter. The democracy programs of the 1980s and 1990s, however, are by far the most systematic, sustained, and wide-reaching that America has undertaken.

and more here in this link:

Aiding Democracy Abroad "

 

[Viva_Viet]

I am pretty sure vietcongs will be immensely benefited by this
Look at the map

the americans wil be eyeing a base at the south-most tip or some old bases like
金兰 湾 - Camranh bay on the vietcongs coastline:

Yeah, Japan is ready to say bye bye to Malacca strait by building a new international port in Lach Huyen-Hai Phong (near Ha Noi) city.

Launching the longest sea road and bridge project
15h:21' - 17/2/2014
Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng on February 15, 2014 attended the launching ceremony of the Tân Vũ-Lạch Huyện motorized road project, the longest sea road and bridge project in Vietnam and in the Southeast Asia at this time.
The projected road runs through Hải An and Cat Hải districts of Haiphong City, one of the two main components of the ỉnfrastructure construction of Lạch Huyện Port, an international gateway and the first international entrepot of the North in the future.

The project’s length is 15.6 kilimeters, starting from Tân Vũ intersection to the East, through the Nam Đình Vũ industrial park, crossing Nam Triệu canal to Cát Hải Island, near Ninh Tiếp ferry landing and ends at Lạch Huyện Port gate.

The project comprises 3 main sections: the link from Tân Vũ intersection to Abutment A1; the bridge section and the link from Cát Hải to Abutment A2. The Tân Vũ-Lạch Huyện motorized road project is the longest sea road and bridge project in Vietnam and in the Southeast Asia at this time.

The projects is invested with ODA from the Japanese Government and the Vietnamese Government’s counterpart funding with the total investment capital of more than VND 11 trillion, in which the Japanese Government’s ODA is put at VND 10 trillion and the Vietnamese Government’s counterpart fund is put at about VND 1,800 billion. The duration of the project construction is 36 months.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng

Speaking at the launching ceremony, Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng stressed that the Tân Vũ-Lạch Huyện motorized road project makes an important and significant contribution to the infrastructure building project of Lạch Huyện Port. Once completed, it will link Lạch Huyện Port to the developing areas in the East of Haiphong City, the Đình Vũ industrial park and the Hanoi-Haiphong Express Way which are under construction, making a contribution to boosting the economic and social development of not only Haiphong City, but of the whole Northern part of the country as well.
Launching the longest sea road and bridge project