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General Category => World News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on March 26, 2017, 03:59:58 pm
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Germany on Track to Build Railway Across South America
By SAM LIVINGSTON • March 24
Around 40 German companies were in Bolivia earlier this week to hold discussions on building a 2,300-mile railway across South America. The proposed railway will link the continent’s two coastlines, crossing through Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. German State Secretary of Transport, Building and Urban Development Rainer Bomba described the railway as “the project of the century.”
The railway will make inland resources in Brazil and Peru more accessible as well as provide links to the Pacific and Atlantic for landlocked Bolivia.
Germany and China have been keen to open deeper trade relations with resource-rich South America in recent years. China put in the first bid to build the railway in 2015, but the plan fell through due to the steep $60 billion price tag and issues on the route of the railway.
https://www.thetrumpet.com/15590-germany-on-course-to-build-railway-across-south-america
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Seems right, after all so many Germans relocated to South America at the end of WWII.