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...In its initial phase, the single-track rail line will run passenger and cargo trains simultaneously....
...With its slender sandy isthmus and diminutive size, this is Sutherland’s answer to the Adriatic’s Sveti Stefan — especially with the water now a ludicrously inviting shade of blue....
...The wider Kherson region links mainland Ukraine to the Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea, and the city lies roughly 100km from the isthmus that provides Russia a narrow land corridor to resupply its troops...
...The island is made up of two volcanoes, Maderas and Concepción, rising up out of Lake Nicaragua and connected by a narrow isthmus. Looped around its twin peaks is Ometepe’s one road....
...Last century, it was too willing to overlook the excesses of brutal regimes there, as long as they held the line against Moscow....
...As odd as it might sound, the way it is framed against, and flows along, the lines of existing paths makes it feel as if it might always have been there....
...Mexico says it has tightened control of immigrants both at its southern border and in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, to try to slow the flow of migrants heading north....
...Like other pet presidential projects, such as a rail link across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a train line around the Yucatán peninsula or a new refinery, full technical studies, environmental impact assessments...
...But the commercial director of a major shipping line in Panama, who asked not to be named, disagreed. “Yes, it is having an impact on us....
...Rail renewal Jude Webber on how Mexico’s plans for a (potentially Chinese-funded) railway line connecting the Atlantic and Pacific could exacerbate tensions with the US....
...FTCR recently spent over a week in the region, crossing the isthmus by land on each side of the border and visiting most of the major cities and border checkpoints....
...But he added that this would be tough if the UK stuck to red lines such as wanting an independent trade policy....
...China’s state-owned shipping lines deliver more containers than those from any other country....
...With an hour till sundown I pottered west and north towards Illetes on its sandy isthmus tapering lazily north....
...At one point a branch line was going to arrive from Camelford, five miles inland....
...Had the Spanish Armada not been sunk in 1588, something along such lines might have gone ahead but Philip’s natural caution prevailed. Literary power is a vital part of a great historian’s armoury....
...The $5.25bn Panama Canal expansion project, due to be completed in early 2015, is predicted to double the amount of traffic passing through this Central American isthmus....
...There is also speculation in Mexico about Chinese investment in a connection across the Tehuantepec isthmus....
...Mexico has twice tried, without success, to modernise a railway line to form a land bridge across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec....
...Colombia’s plans to build its own, Chinese-financed rail line across the isthmus raise questions about the demand for a second inter-oceanic rail line within this relatively small area of central America...
...A 15th-century fortified fishing village, linked to the mainland by a sandy isthmus, it had been converted into a luxury hotel after its original population dwindled....
...He planned to found a Scottish colony at Darien on the narrow isthmus of Panama in Central America, to control trade between the two great oceans and so transform impoverished Scotland into a great trading...
...Unspoilt beaches line the Pacific coast south of Dominical and are accessible by what is now an easy drive down a two-lane highway....
...The narrow channel and tight curves of the 163km crossing through the flat, sandy Isthmus of Suez make the passage painfully slow....
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