2010-01-26

Bids for the tender to construct two bridges in El Salvador's San Miguel department must be submitted by February 1, the El Salvadorian chapter of the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Fomilenio's communications director Carmen Vergara told BNamericas.   Offers will be opened on the s...

2010-01-26

Brazilian tollroad operator CCR (Bovespa: CCRO3) is open to developing a partnership to bid for the concession of the Sul and Leste stretches of the Rodoanel Mário Covas beltway surrounding São Paulo city, national cargo transport association ABTC reported in a release.   The si...

2010-01-26

Uruguay-based construction firm Saceem is opening offices in a number of countries in Latin America as part of its international expansion, the firm's commercial director Alejandro Ruibal told BNamericas.   Subsidiaries are being opened in Costa Rica, Peru and Paraguay.   The company i...

2010-01-24

Argentine Buenos Aires city's finance minister Néstor Grindetti was in New York last week looking for economic assistance to finance the expansion of the capital's subway system known as Subte, local paper La Nación reported.   The project involves the expansion of metro lines A...

2010-01-24

Puerto Rico's Las Américas port (PLA) has received two new post-Panamax gantry cranes, paper El Vocero reported.   The gantry cranes were purchased by national port authority APA at a cost of US$22.7mn from Chinese firm Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry (ZPMC).   APA plans to star...

2010-01-24

The 11km tram that Mexico's federal district (DF) government plans to build in the city's historic center is "worth the cost," Bernardo Navarro, transport expert and researcher with Mexico's autonomous metropolitan university (UAM), told BNamericas.   The tram has received fierce cr...

2010-01-24

The global economic recovery that is now underway will slow later this year as the impact of fiscal stimulus wanes, according to a new report by the World Bank.   Financial markets remain troubled and private sector demand is down due to high unemployment.   While the worst of the fina...

2010-01-24

Costa Rican state rail administrator Incofer is to open two new train routes for capital San José's greater metropolitan area, local paper La República reported.   The routes could start operating by end-February or the beginning of March.   The first route will run betwe...