The Nicaraguan business delegation that visited China returned with objective grounds for believing in the realization of the project by the company HKND.
An article in Elnuevodiario.com.ni summarizes the opinion of Arturo Cruz, an analyst, diplomat and scholar, and member of the Nicaraguan delegation recently returned from China, where they met the businessman Wang Jing who revealed information on the relationship between him and his company HKND with the Chinese business political system.
At a conference organized by AMCHAM in Nicaragua personnel from the company HKND admitted to still not having data on the feasibility of the project.
Ronald McLean, spokesman for the company Wang Jing, and a specialist from the Environmental Resources Management (ERM), Alberto Vega, had no answer for the vast majority of the questions on the Grand Canal of Nicaragua project, raised by businessmen present at the conference.
AmCham Nicaragua has announced that representatives of the company HKND, concessionaire of the project, will hold a conference on August 13.
The activity, organized by the Nicaraguan American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), will include the participation of HKND Group spokesman Ronald MacLean-Abaroa and Alberto Vega, a representative from Environmental Resources Management (ERN), the firm responsible for the environmental impact studies.
The president of HKND declared that they have already decided the route of the proposed Nicaraguan canal.
Wang Jing, president of HKND said that although a feasibility report is currently being carried out, "the framework" for the project has already been defined. "There wont be small changes, but there are no major changes," said the businessmen when specifying the route: Hound Sound Bar (South of Isla del Venado, in Bluefields Bay) - Escondido River - Rama River - Oyate River - Lake Nicaragua - Las Lajas River - Brito River.
The commission of the Great Canal continues seeking interested investors to make an inter-oceanic canal a reality.
In statements made to Ervin Sánchez in ElNuevoDiario.com.ni, one of the members of the commission of the Great Canal through Nicaragua, Adolfo Evertz Veles, insists that: "Not only is there world interest, but need, given that the Panama Canal no longer serves the ships that navigate there, ships pass up to 65,000 tons, they are expanding it and ships will pass up to 80,000 tons, but it so happens that the majority of the ships - the container ships, flour ships, and tankers -, are up to 200,000 or 300,000 tons."