2010-03-01

The results of audits carried out on the main exit and entrance tollroads to Panama City will be made public on March 1, paper La Estrella reported.   The local branch of Mexican firm PYCSA was awarded the 30-year concession to operate the Corredor Norte and Panamá-Madden tollroads in ...

2010-03-01

Mexican airport operator OMA (Nasdaq: OMAB, BMV: OMA) expects to open its US$60mn terminal B at Monterrey airport in June of this year, according to CFO José Luis Guerrero.   The terminal, which will have the capacity to handle 2mn ...

2010-03-01

Argentine and Chilean authorities met in Argentine city Mendoza to officially create the bi-national entity in charge of coordinating the development of a US$3bn low-altitude rail tunnel connecting the two countries.   The project was submitted to Chilean and Argentine authorities last year b...

2010-02-27

IDB has approved three loans totaling US$170mn to improve Jamaica's competitiveness, the multilateral said in a release.   Resources will be used to create social safety net reforms, boost business competitiveness and support public sector reforms to improve effectiveness of expenditure and p...

2010-02-27

Spanish construction firm OHL issued a statement formally denying any participation in possible anti-competitive practices.   The document was released in response to an investigation started by Spain's antitrust commission (CNC), involving 53 Spanish construction companies.   "Th...

2010-02-27

Costa Rica's public works and transport ministry (MOPT) is waiting for approval of almost half of the resources needed to repair, replace or carry out maintenance on some of the country's bridges, local paper La Nación reported.   The total budget needed to carry out these works is US$...

2010-02-27

Chile's public works ministry (MOP) will in June launch the tender to concession a maritime transport service to connect regions XI and XII, a MOP official told BNamericas.   The maritime route was announced by public works minister Sergio Bitar, who said that - for the first time - a vehicle...

2010-02-25

The El Salvadorian chapter of the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Fomilenio, will award a tender to build a new stretch of El Salvador's Longitudinal del Norte highway in the first week of March, a Fomilenio official told BNamericas.   The offers are being studied by a committee an...