I Wonder If Japan Knows...

[Mulboyne]

RIA Novosti: JAPAN READY TO TAKE PART IN BUILDING TUNNEL LINKING MAINLAND, SAKHALIN AND HOKKAIDO
MOSCOW, April 27 (RIA Novosti) - Japan is ready to finance the construction of a tunnel between the mainland, Sakhalin island and Hokkaido island, said a source in the Russian Transport Ministry. "The Japanese are ready to build a tunnel for $30-32 million per kilometer [in Russia such construction costs $100 million per km now]," said the source. The draft discussed now implies building a 7-kilometer-long tunnel between Sakhalin and the mainland, and a 42-km tunnel between Sakhalin and Hokkaido. This issue has been discussed at an intergovernmental commission session. "If we don't take a place in international transport corridors, China and Kazakhstan will," said the source. A total of 95% of cargoes dispatched from west to east and vice versa go through the Suez Canal. New transport corridors will considerably cut the time required for cargo delivery.

[Skankster]

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This is probably (moreso) related to Japans failed bid to get rights for the purchase of the rich oil reserves in the Sakhalin arch.

Too bad arch nemisis China bought it right out from under them!! Zamamiro!!

[kurohinge1]

RIA Novosti: JAPAN READY TO TAKE PART IN BUILDING TUNNEL LINKING MAINLAND, SAKHALIN AND HOKKAIDO
... "The Japanese are ready to build a tunnel for $30-32 million per kilometer [in Russia such construction costs $100 million per km now]," said the source...

$30-32 million per kilometre !

I might put in a bid. Some lads & I could probably do it cheaper than that. I've drilled brick (to put up a retractable clothes-line). How hard could it be to just make a big hole Especially with all that money to play with.

[dimwit]

$30-32 million per kilometre !

I might put in a bid. Some lads & I could probably do it cheaper than that. I've drilled brick (to put up a retractable clothes-line). How hard could it be to just make a big hole Especially with all that money to play with.

$30-32 million IS cheap, depending on the material they are tunneling through. My question is how Japan with it's reputation for inflated construction costs can make this offer?