Вардарска Долина

Message Topic Search Topic Options Post Reply Create New Topic Printable Version

se javi i juzhniot sosed, ostanevme ushte nie v srede bez javna fizibilitka, iako sigurno kje izvadat i nashite brzo neshto od fioka dokolku im e gladno oko ko na srbite i grcite, samo dali preporakite na ekolozite nekoj kje gi zeme predvid so ogled deka kinezite sigurno nema da ne uslovat so vakva norma brkajki prilika shto pobrzo da se pozicioniraat na ovaa ruta

treba da se prepoznae i kakov avtoritet kje ima utre vo odnos na vakov koridor i dali istiot e garant za vnatreshnata bezbednost

February 24, 2014

China supports new channel AgeanSea-Danube

The Eurasian Development block provides remedies for the crisis-hit European countries, which hardly get any help from the bank support prioritizing the institutions of the EU. China has been very active in supporting the real economy development projects in Europe. The latest is to help Romania and Hungary to build a high speed train and develop agriculture, and several now uncertain project to help Ukraine. 

Now China wants to also realize the long-proposed canal project connecting Greece to the Danube.

Support for channel Morava-Vardar-Axios takes off. The canal connects the Central European canal system around the rivers Rhine and Danube with the Aegean Sea and is part of the Schiller Institute's "Marshall Plan for the Mediterranean" (see link below). Greek Shipowners Association of Short Sea Shipping has given the project its full support and urged the Greek government to make this one of the main issues during its six-month period as the holder of the EU presidency. Shipowners' Association organized a seminar this january 14 this year with a lecture by Professor Alkis Corres from Aegean University where he presented the canal project feasibility. In the presentation, said Corres that there is more interest in the channel now than ever, and that the technical feasibility of building such projects have evolved considerably over the past decades. Serbia has already commissioned a feasibility study carried out by the Chinese state-owned construction company China Gezuba Corp., who presented the preliminary results of Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic during his visit to China at the end of last year.

It is said that the Chinese are ready to invest up to $ 10 billion in loans. The study is completed but has not been published yet. The reports states that the 650 km-long project would connect the Danube with a channel between the Morava River in Serbia and Vardar in Macedonia, which is called Axios as it flows into Greece, and thence into the Aegean Sea at the Greek port city Thessaloniki. The project would involve eleven femstegsslussar and seven hydropower projects being built along the route.

Chinese are interested because it complements their development of the transport corridor from the port of Piraeus, where they have rented container port as the main entry point for goods in transit to Europe. The Russians are also interested because it completes their water transport networks, which together with Ukraine is the world's largest.

According www.seatrade-global.com told shipowners federation president Charalmbos Simantonis for the seminar that his organization supports the project:

- Such a connection will dramatically reduce the time and cost of transportation.

There is already considerable interest in the project from Chinese companies. We want to create a global Short Sea Shipping Networks with participants from Europe, America and Asia. We are already in discussions with närsjöfartsorganisationer in Canada and the United States. Corres also pointed out that the EU and the U.S. are interested in negative reasons: they do not want Russian and Chinese involvement in the supposed European empire.

 Read more about the Marshall Plan for the Mediterranean here: 

http://www.larouche.se/nyheter/2012/06/24/marshallplan-for-medelhavsomradet

 See further on the Pacific Strategy in the pamphlet:

http://larouche.se/artikel/pamflett-bygg-for-framtiden

See and read more about Världslandbroprojekten here:

http://larouche.se/artikel/eaptv-varldslandbron

http://www.larouche.se/nyheter/2014/02/24/kina-stoder-ny-kanal-grekland-donau