2011-04-14

Argentina's Santa Fe government has opened 15 bids for a project to pave over 50km of provincial highways in departments Castellanos, Las Colonias and San Cristóbal, requiring some 188mn pesos (US$46.2mn) in total.

2011-04-14

Infrastructure projects to prepare Brazil for the 2014 World Cup are falling behind schedule, according to federal audit court (TCU) minister Valmir Campelo.

2011-04-14

Mexico's transport and communications ministry (SCT) has awarded a tender to expand and modernize a section of national highway 15 in northern Sonora state to construction firm ICA.

2011-04-11

Brazil's Santos port in São Paulo state plans to complete its development and zoning plan in May this year, a spokesperson from state port authority Codesp told BNamericas.

2011-04-11

Panama's congressional budget committee has greenlighted the transfer of US$13.7mn for the expansion project at Tocumen international airport, which serves capital Panama City.

2011-04-11

Mexican infrastructure developer IDEAL has emerged as the likely winner of the federal government's Pacífico Sur highway concession package, after presenting the sole bid for the project.

2011-04-11

Chile's public works ministry (MOP) does not plan to pursue a tender to concession ferry services from region X's Chiloé island to the mainland across the Chacao canal, MOP's director for the region, Enrique Hoelck, told BNamericas.

2011-04-08

Colombia's state oil company Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) has created a port management unit to cover increasing hydrocarbons production and requirements from foreign clients.