That makes more sense, WCMO. However, to own a port in Brazil with trucker strikes and always an election away from it being nationalized and going the way of Venezuela, they better have thoughts of making their money up front.
This idea of China being a untiring super stud....I don`t know about that, a few years ago we were talking about "Chinese ghost cities", they were just built to keep up the façade of 8% GDP growth.
What Will Become Of China's Ghost Cities?
Little did we know that most of that iron ore being shipped to Guangzhou from Rio de Janeiro and Port Hedland, Australia was going to build Chinese cities; cities that would remain vacant for years. China single-handedly topped the phrase "bridge to nowhere" and made ghost cities a euphemism for lousy development planning in the world's No. 2 economy. Anyone can build a useless overpass, but it takes China to build a city for a million people with no buyers in sight.
The naysayers loved the Western media's discovery of China's ghost cities. It was evidence that China's growth of the last 20 years was based on building things nobody needed or wanted. This was planned obsolescence on a grand scale. And now that the economy is slowing, what will become of those cities? Many of them are debt burdens carried by the developers who haven't sold a single unit.
From shopping malls to soccer stadiums, hundreds of new cities in China are largely empty. And yet more cities are still being built deep in the heart of the country. All in hopes that its rural population will one day move to a flat in a city without a mayor. It's plausible, of course. That's because over the next 15 years, the country's urban population will be 1 billion; three times that of the United States.
