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China and Colombia are to build a rail link across Colombia to transport between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The project will be a to the Panama Canal. China says it needs the railway to its economic plans in Latin America and . Colombia the investment and the jobs the link would . Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said: "It's a proposal...and it is quite advanced.” The 450-km line would be than the 550km railway China to Tibet.

The new railway will be another of making the world smaller, and more . It will hopefully make some things cheaper. The fastest overland route the two oceans is by rail from California to America’s East Coast, that’s very expensive. The Panama Canal offers a but cheaper alternative. The Trans-Colombian railway will be a addition to South America’s transport . Exporters from Brazil, Argentina and other countries will from cheaper transportation because the railway is than Panama.