The Pinglu Canal opened, linking Nanning to the Gulf of Tonkin
Al Jazeera wrote that the Pinglu waterway opened to trade on Wednesday; length 134 kilometres. Guangxi officials said the route shortens the haul by about 560 kilometres and lowers logistics costs in an 18-30 range. It joins the Xijiang to Beibu. No second publisher appeared in this pass.
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One hundred thirty-four kilometres
Al Jazeera wrote that the Pinglu waterway opened to commercial traffic on Wednesday. The length is 134 kilometres. Guangxi’s first modern river-to-sea canal joins the Xijiang to Beibu, a north-west Tonkin arm facing Vietnam. Local officials said the sea haul from inland southwest China toward Southeast Asia shortens by about 560 kilometres. That is the new passage from Nanning to the gulf. No construction-cost figure appears here. The shortening claim belongs to those officials. The waterway runs from river to sea.[1]
Logistics costs
The same Al Jazeera report leaves the construction-cost figure with Xinhua; the AFP relay is not repeated here. The Nanning-Tonkin link sits in that pool account. This is not a customs-union claim. Opening day is Wednesday. The logistics claim belongs to local officials. The canal runs from river to sea.[1]
The second-page search
BBC World RSS and France 24 English RSS carried no Pinglu headline on 16 September. Reuters world RSS returned HTTP 401. The card therefore rests on the Al Jazeera report. The opening, the 134 kilometres and the 560 kilometre shortening come from that report. A second independent publisher's own page is missing in this pass. This is not a military-corridor claim. The Guangxi link is written as civilian logistics. The RSS sweep is dated 16 September.[1]
