http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-15/putin-builds-north-korea-rail-to-circumvent-suez-canal.htmlQuote:
...The route is as much as three times faster than shipping via Egypt’s Suez Canal, which handles 17,000 ships a year, accounts for about 8 percent of maritime trade -- and is increasingly beset by pirates and political instability in Egypt and Syria...
Very smart movement I 'd say. The future is on, or
without, rails!
Rails will never reach the capacity of ships.
But they are a major threat to airplanes (passengers).
So at the end it is NOT a niche project.
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