You would need two ports able to accommodate enough traffic that it would effectively be the largest two ports in the Americas. You are also going to really mess up logistics as you are splitting one transit trip to three different companies. Costs also rise when you have to process cargo, which you are now add two additional times process cargo.
It isn’t going to be economicly viable. Hell, China’s plan to cross Central America also includes a canal due to cost.
Freight rail is kind of a clusterfuck in the USA even if people think it is amazing.
Also, for some reason, everything container on the west coast seems to go through LA/Long Beach, which is also backed up.
And that’s assuming it doesn’t just derail.
Panama could open a railroad parallel to the canal and a port on either end…
You would need two ports able to accommodate enough traffic that it would effectively be the largest two ports in the Americas. You are also going to really mess up logistics as you are splitting one transit trip to three different companies. Costs also rise when you have to process cargo, which you are now add two additional times process cargo.
It isn’t going to be economicly viable. Hell, China’s plan to cross Central America also includes a canal due to cost.
the railroad part exists, and predates the canal even!