Nicarauga is to build an alternative to the Panama Canal.
What a Civil Engineering contract that will be!
The mind truly boggles. Capacity, by all criteria, will be far in excess of that offered by the Panama Canal.
Panama earns huge revenues from the Canal, where the average fee per vessel is around $54,000, with fees as high as $300,000 in certain cases. When delays occur in the Canal (maintenance etc) vessels in the queue bid in an auction, with the highest price getting priority access.
You can travel through as a private punter for a Yacht less than 100ft its $2000ish over is around $3200.
Little craft are around $750. I do not know many folk with a cargo vessel.
Regards
M