Panama Canal

===Colombia rail link===
In 2011, Colombia's then-president [[Juan Manuel Santos]] announced a proposal for a {{convert|220|km|0|abbr=on}} railway between Colombia's Pacific and Caribbean coasts.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7e14756c-37a9-11e0-b91a-00144feabdc0.html |last1=Rathbone |first1=John Paul |last2=Mapstone |first2=Naomi |title=China in talks over Panama Canal rival |newspaper=Financial Times |date=2011-02-13 |others=Additional reporting by Geoff Dyer and Robert Wright |url-status=unfit <!-- actually live, but behind paywall --> |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110215125957/https://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7e14756c-37a9-11e0-b91a-00144feabdc0.html |archive-date=2011-02-15}}</ref><ref name="ch-co-rail">
{{cite news |last=Branigan |first=Tania |date=February 14, 2011 |title=China goes on the rails to rival Panama canal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/14/china-rail-rival-panama-canal |url-status=live |work=The Guardian |others=Additional research by Lin Yi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211041102/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/14/china-rail-rival-panama-canal |archive-date=2021-02-11}}</ref> However, in 2015 the director of the Colombia-China Chamber of Commerce said the proposal "was mentioned in 2011 and subsequently had minimal relevance".<ref>{{cite news |last=Romero |first=Simon |author-link=Simon Romero |date=October 3, 2015 |title=China's Ambitious Rail Projects Crash Into Harsh Realities in Latin America |script-title= |trans-title= |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/world/americas/chinas-ambitious-rail-projects-crash-into-harsh-realities-in-latin-america.html |url-status=live |newspaper=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211032654/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/world/americas/chinas-ambitious-rail-projects-crash-into-harsh-realities-in-latin-america.html |archive-date=2021-02-11 |url-access=limited}}</ref>