2010-11-05

Brazil's national airport authority Infraero has launched a 45.1mn-real (US$26.9mn) tender to expand and improve the Deputado Luis Eduardo Magalhaes international airport in Bahia state capital Salvador.   The project involves work such as remodeling the passenger terminal, implementing passe...

2010-11-05

Venezuela's state controlled rail company Instituto de Ferrocarriles del Estado (IFE), has begun speed tests on the first 10km of the recently repaired Barquisimeto-Yaritagua rail line.   The upgrades have allowed trains to increase their speed from 40km/h to 100km/h, according to IFE preside...

2010-11-05

Mexican railroad operator Ferromex is investing US$170mn in new locomotives and building new sidings, the firm said in a release.   The firm began work to build 17 new sidings and expand another 8 in October. The works, budgeted at US$70mn, will become operative in 1Q11.   Ferromex is ...

2010-11-04

Chile's public works ministry (MOP) expects to award the concession of region II's El Loa airport on November 25, a ministry spokesperson told BNamericas.   MOP is schedule to review financial offers on that date and plans to announce the winner immediately afterwards, the spokesperson said, ...

2010-11-04

Brazil's Sao Paulo state ports and airports users committee (Comus) has started holding itinerant meetings aimed at streamlining logistics operations at the state's Santos port, Comus executive coordinator Jose Candido Senna told BNamericas.   ...

2010-11-04

Colombia's transport ministry (Mintransporte) aims to determine a financing option for the binational Tienditas bridge, linking the country with Venezuela, by the end of this year, a ministry official told BNamericas.   Mintransporte is currently carrying out technical and financial feasibili...

2010-11-04

Argentine airport operator Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 (AA2000) will be unable to carry out any further expansion projects at capital Buenos Aires' Aeroparque Jorge Newbery airport, the firm's infrastructure director, Marcelo Minoliti, told BNamericas.   "Aeroparque cannot get bigger beca...

2010-11-03

Peru's transport and communications ministry (MTC) has requested a budget of 7.5bn soles (US$2.68bn) for 2011, according to transport minister Enrique Cornejo.   The ministry will aim to spend 97% of its budget to carry out infrastructure maintenance and upgrades, MTC reported on its website....