In total, 14 different possible routes have been identified for a Kra canal. Chinese Interest In 2005, or thereabouts, the Chinese government floated its interest in underwriting the cost of a Kra ...

Gen Thawatchai noted the project would make lots of revenue by charging commercial ships sailing through the canal. "If we make the Kra Canal, we can become an Asean leader," Gen Thawatchai insisted.

Vietnam announced that it would build a US$2.5 billion deep-water seaport, named Hon Khoai Port, on an island 17km off the coast of Ca Mau, Vietnam's southern-most province.

But the likely impact of the Kra Canal is less about battleships and more about shipping containers. The Canal is like building a new highway that will bypass a town, leaving the local service ...

Beijing has denied official participation in the project, but some port cities in the region are already cheering their possible gains at Singapore's expense, should the Kra canal come to pass ...

The revival of the idea of building the Kra Canal through Thailand to enable shipping to bypass the narrow Straits of Malacca has been in the news recently. The plan would be to build a 750 mile ...

The three-centuries old idea to cut a canal across the Isthmus of Kra in southern Thailand is unfailingly resurrected whenever the Thai economy hits the skids, as it has done since the onset of ...

The Kra Canal, a proposed 102- to 135-kilometre waterway linking the Andaman Sea with the Gulf of Thailand, was approved by the Thai Senate in 2005 but has remained unrealised and repeatedly postponed ...

The Kra Canal will shorten this route by some 1,200 kilometres and thereby significantly reduce transport costs for oil and other cargo as ships will be able to pass from the Indian Ocean into the ...

The Kra Canal project connecting the Gulf of Thailand to the Andaman Sea in the South has experienced stops and starts for decades now, with still no strong signs of it moving forward. But one ...