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A $9.6bn Private Bid to Reroute South America’s Grain to Asia
A private consortium is proposing a $9.6bn rail corridor connecting Argentina to Chile’s Pacific coast, featuring a 54-kilometre tunnel under the Andes to enable year-round grain transport. The project, backed by Chile’s Beler and Singapore’s International Nusantara Investment, uses no public funds.
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