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tpcook said:
That's a lot of rubble. Where are they going to get the fill?
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It is also believed that the Chinese bid was low because they are expected to provide their own workers, equipment where practical and even allegedly their own rocks for the project.


All Chinese project and supplying their own fill, huh? Well, they have plenty of experience doing this kind of thing in the Spratly Islands. I predict a localized environmental disaster not only from the toxic crap they will probably have in their fill but Trellis Bay will be forever altered and will silt up to where it is no longer a viable anchorage without a regular dredging operation (assuming one is still allowed to anchor there and that they would want to). I hope I am wrong.


A 7000 foot runway design and build project is a small project for this $60B in annual revenue company that builds ports, terminals, roads, bridges, railway, tunnel, civil work design and construction, capital dredging and reclamation dredging, container crane, heavy marine machinery, large steel structure and road machinery manufacturing, and international project contracting... with over 100,000 employees.

[i]"China Communications Construction Company (CCCC)is the largest port construction and design company in China, the largest dredging company in China and the third largest in the world."