2009-09-22

Costa Rica's regional infrastructure financing corporation CIFI has signed a US$15mn loan agreement with the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), CIFI reported in a release.

2009-09-22

Panama's cabinet council has approved a bill to merge national transit authority ATTT and the public works ministry (MOP) to form a new ministry of road infrastructure and ground transport (Mivitte), the government website reported.

2009-09-22

Companies operating in Brazil are taking up approximately half of the projects worth some 100bn reais (US$55bn) that had been put on hold since the onset of the global financial crisis, according to a study by federal development bank BNDES's economic research department, newspaper Folha de S Paulo ...

2009-09-17

Mexico's transport and communications ministry (SCT), in coordination with the national port authority and the merchant navy, has hired international management consulting firm Oliver Wyman to develop a public policy plan for the development of the country's ports, Daniel Silva, director of Oliver W...

2009-09-17

Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez was scheduled to meet with IDB president Luis Alberto Moreno on Tuesday to discuss infrastructure funding, an official from Uruguay's presidential office told BNamericas.   Vázquez and Moreno will discuss Uruguay's infrastructure develop...

2009-09-17

Spanish investors are evaluating a portfolio of projects in Peru totaling US$4.5bn, according to the president of the Spanish confederation of business organizations (CEOE), Gerardo Díaz.   Among the projects being analyzed are the electric train in Lima, the Pisco port concession in I...

2009-09-17

São Paulo state's 1.7bn-real (US$944mn) Várzeas do Tietê park project goes hand in hand with plans to improve the city's Marginal Tietê highway, according to state sanitation and energy secretary Dilma Pena.   The 107km2 park is expected to be 75km in length, and wil...

2009-09-17

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is scheduled to inaugurate the start of works on the BR-448 highway in Rio Grande do Sul state on September 18, news service Agência Estado reported.   Construction of the 22.3km stretch will cost 820mn reais (US$456mn) and the project...