{"id":12104,"date":"2014-12-02T14:51:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T19:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=12104"},"modified":"2014-12-02T14:51:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T19:51:47","slug":"grand-canal-the-inevitable-clash-of-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/grand-canal-the-inevitable-clash-of-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Canal: The Inevitable Clash of Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nica-canal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12105\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nica-canal.jpg\" alt=\"nica canal\" width=\"640\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/nica-canal.jpg 640w, 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Nicaraguan companies seeking to participate in the construction of the Grand Canal of Nicaragua, need to make a greater effort to fit in with the Chinese concessionaires in terms of working methods and systems management, starting with the simple but essential language problem.<\/p>\n<p>The opportunities offered by the construction of the Grand Canal will not be for everyone, but for those &#8211; necessarily few- capable of dramatic conversion in order to work side by side with specialists in managing large projects with world-class requirements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"link_source\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: laprensa.com.ni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicaraguan businesses are complaining that HKND may have begun to invite construction companies to participate in tenders 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