2010-09-28

Mexican port authority API Guaymas, which operates Guaymas port in Sonora state, expects to open a new liquids terminal in January next year, the port's director, Jose Luis Castro, told BNamericas.   The port authority signed a 65mn-peso (US$5.2mn) contract with US firm Frontera Copper Corpor...

2010-09-28

Uruguay's public works and transport ministry (MTOP) will invest some US$50mn in infrastructure projects over the next five years, the presidential website reported.   Of the total budget for the period, 10% will go towards improving road infrastructure, including the General Jose Artigas, An...

2010-09-28

The governments of Panama and Costa Rica have agreed to open a bailey bridge over the Sixaola river, which connects the two countries, in January 2011.   The existing bridge, which is over 100 years old, will be closed to vehicles as of January, Panama's economy and finance ministry MEF said ...

2010-09-27

US train manufacturer GE Transportation and Brazilian rail operator MRS Logistica have signed a locomotive purchase agreement worth over 600mn reais (US$349mn).   GE Transportation will supply the Brazilian firm with 115 AC44 locomotives, delivering 60 units in 2011, and the remaining units b...

2010-09-27

Paraguayan and Argentine officials are set to hold an emergency meeting to discuss an unauthorized canal being built on the Argentine side of the binational Pilcomayo river, an official from Argentina's Salta province government told BNamericas.   Work on the 800m canal began on September 19,...

2010-09-27

Bolivia's government is seeking a US$100mn loan from the World Bank to develop highway and airport infrastructure in northwestern Beni and La Paz departments.   National roads administrator ABC will carry out a project to modernize the 114km San Buenaventura-Ixiamas stretch of national highwa...

2010-09-27

El Salvador's public works, transport, housing and urban development ministry (MOPTVDU) has launched two consultancy tenders aimed at supporting the development of a new mass transport system in capital San Salvador's metropolitan area.   The first tender involves providing legal, financial a...

2010-09-24

Mexico's transport and communications ministry (SCT) has signed an agreement with Concesionaria y Operadora del Puente Internacional Cucapa to take over the operation of the new Cucapa international toll bridge.   The bridge, which will serve road traffic between Sonora state's San Luis Rio C...