2010-10-20

Mexican firm Istasa was the only bidder for a 500mn-peso (US$39.8mn) project to build and operate a container terminal at Guaymas port in northern Sonora state, port authority director Jose Luis Castro told BNamericas.   Port authority API Guaymas is now evaluating the company's technical and...

2010-10-20

A total of 25 local and international firms have expressed interest in a tender launched by the Dominican Republic's public works and communication ministry (SEOPC) for highway repairs in eastern La Romana province, project coordinator Ernesto Musa told BNamericas.   The project, which involv...

2010-10-20

Brazil's urban rail company CBTU has launched four tenders totaling 23.3mn reais (US$13.9mn) for railroad reconstruction in the northeastern states of Alagoas and Pernambuco, a CBTU spokesperson told BNamericas.   The first three tenders, worth 12.9mn reais, involve works on the 32.1km Maceio...

2010-10-19

Argentina's planning and investment ministry (Minplan) has received 16 bids to carry out construction and paving work on northeastern Entre Rios' provincial highway Ruta 23.   The project had a reference price of 109mn pesos (US$27.4mn), of which 80% will be financed by an IDB loan, the Entre...

2010-10-19

The Andean Development Corporation (CAF) has signed an MOU with Russian state development and foreign economic affairs bank Vnesheconombank, as CAF also moved ahead in another congressional committee with plans to begin operating in Chile after more than 32 years of absence.   The agreement b...

2010-10-19

Expansion work at Costa Rica's Daniel Oduber international airport, which serves Guanacaste province capital Liberia, is scheduled for completion in April, a public works and transport ministry (MOPT) spokesperson told BNamericas.   Construction of the airport's new passenger terminal will be...

2010-10-19

Multinational consortium Corredor Bi-Oceanico expects to complete studies for a bi-oceanic railway corridor connecting Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Paraguay in December, Roberto Salinas, advisor to the logistics committee of Paraguay's investments and exportations network Rediex, told BNamericas. &...

2010-10-18

Panama's economy and finance (MEF) minister Alberto Vallarino has presented a bill to congress to create state company Empresa Nacional de Autopistas (ENA) to manage the Corredor Norte and Sur tollroads.   The new entity will be better able to manage the state's resources and balance its need...