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Article: Group studies Caribbean-Pacific link as one alternative to Panama Canal. (Commission for the Study of Alternatives to the Panama Canal)
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- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 1991
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Group studies Caribbean-Pacific link as one alternative to Panama Canal
Linking the Atlantic to the Pacific by means of a $17 billion sea-level canal is only one of several radical and not-so-radical ideas now under study, in an effort to prepare the increasingly obsolete Panama Canal for superships of the 21st century.
The canal, which is crucial to the coffee industries of Colombia, Costa Rica and several other major Latin American coffee producers, is scheduled to be returned to Panama at noon, Dec. 31, 1999.
According to Panama Canal Commission statistics, some 429,000 of coffee moved through the waterway in fiscal 1990, up from 288,000 tons ...