2010-02-22

Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez will inaugurate the Anillo Perimetral Vial beltway in capital Montevideo on February 24, local press reported.   The 22km beltway, which involved an investment of US$80mn, connects highways Ruta 5, Ruta 6, Ruta 7, Ruta 8, Ruta 102, Ruta 101, In...

2010-02-22

API Tuxpan, the administrator of Tuxpan port in Mexico's Veracruz state, has suspended the tender for the concession of a new container terminal, the port authority's commercial head José Timoteo García told BNamericas.   The administrator had not set an official budget for the ...

2010-02-22

The resources from a US$70mn infrastructure fund will be disbursed once Argentine Córdoba's provincial government gives the go-ahead, a provincial congress official told BNamericas.   Congress approved the law and the next step is for the local government to make the law a reality, the...

2010-02-18

Paraguay's public works and communications ministry (MOPC) will in April launch a tender for paving works on a 192km stretch of road linking Concepción department's capital of the same name to nearby Vallemí port.   The work, which has been divided into two 56km stretches, has a...

2010-02-18

Colombia's biggest cement firm Cementos Argos (Cemargos) has signed a US$3.2mn JV with Suriname's largest business group Kersten, local and international press reported.   Suriname cement company Vensur, which is controlled by Kersten, will benefit from Cemargos' knowledge and technology, whi...

2010-02-18

Chile's State-owned San Antonio port administrator Empresa Portuaria San Antonio (EPSA) will decide this year whether or not to turn region V's San Antonio port into an outer port by 2020, an official from the public works ministry's (MOP) port division told BNamericas.   EPSA hired Spanish f...

2010-02-18

Brazil's Ceará state road department has launched four road rehabilitation tenders as part of its highway program, IDB said in a release.   The tenders comprise rehabilitation works on a 29.6km stretch on the CE 354; a 29.7km section of the CE 266; a 43.6km stretch on the CE 386; and a...

2010-02-17

Guatemala's President Álvaro Colom ordered the start of construction work on a new bridge over the Guacalate river, in Escuintla department's Masagua municipality, the presidential website reported.   Construction will cost 23mn quetzales (US$2.8mn).   The bridge will connect th...