2009-06-23

El Salvadorian ports authority Cepa will analyze all available options to allow the La Unión port to start operations, even if this means structuring new operation plans, new Cepa president Guillermo López was quoted as saying by paper La Prensa Gráfica.

2009-06-23

São Paulo city's metro company CMSP has awarded a 383mn-real (US$196mn) contract to modernize 156 passenger rail cars to a consortium led by Bombardier Transportation, the firm reported in a release.

2009-06-23

The governments of Chile and Costa Rica have signed a public works cooperation agreement under the first joint mission to the latter country by the Chilean public works ministry (MOP) and the US Treasury Department, Chilean paper La Tercera reported.

2009-06-23

The mayor of Argentine city Córdoba, Daniel Giacomino, inaugurated the first stretch of the city's urban train system, Ferrourbano, the local government reported in a release.

2009-06-23

The São Paulo state roads department (DER) has launched a tender to draw up the preliminary design for a suspension bridge connecting Guarujá to Santos, according to a release by the Brazilian state's port authority Codesp.

2009-06-23

Mexico's Tamaulipas state is spending 2bn pesos (US$150mn) until 2010 to upgrade and modernize bridges connecting to the US, state foreign trade director Aquiles Garza told BNamericas.

2009-06-18

Chilean legislators have said they would be willing to discuss a permanent subsidy for state-owned rail company EFE as long as the firm can demonstrate it is being well managed, local paper Estrategia reported.

2009-06-18

Peru's President Alan García has approved a law to create land transport authority Sutran to control and regulate mass transport and all public and private vehicle traffic on roads and highways, the presidential website said in a release.