2010-08-26

Paraguay's public works and communications ministry (MOPC) will participate in a forum designed to promote public-private partnerships (PPP) in infrastructure development to be held on August 31.   The event will bring together international experts on concession models to discuss private inv...

2010-08-26

Chile's new Rio Claro bridge, on the Pan-American highway in central-southern region VII, will become operative during the second quarter of 2012, a public works ministry (MOP) official told BNamericas.   The bridge will have three lanes, improving the standards of the former one, public work...

2010-08-26

Brazil's federal audit court (TCU) has cancelled two tenders worth 838mn reais (US$475mn) to improve the Anel Rodoviario beltway in Minas Gerais state capital Belo Horizonte.   TCU auditors have found 12 questionable points that could cost the government nearly 300mn reais, according to the o...

2010-08-25

Ecuador's transport and public works ministry (MTOP) has invested nearly US$19mn in roadworks projects in Carchi province, state newspaper El Ciudadano reported.   Rehabilitation work, which cost US$15.4mn, has been completed on the 23.7km Julio Andrade-El Carmelo highway. The stretch will co...

2010-08-25

Uruguayan authorities are in talks with Brazilian government officials to garner support to obtain financing for the Uruguayan stretch of an Atlantic-Pacific railroad, an official from Uruguay's presidential office told BNamericas.   Brazil's support would help Uruguay secure financing from t...

2010-08-25

Construction of a new international airport in Peru's Cuzco region will require investment of at least US$350mn, according to private investment promotion agency ProInversion.   ProInversion, the economy and finance (MEF) and transport and communications (MTC) ministries will confirm the amou...

2010-08-25

The Central American unit of Spain's FCC is scheduled to start building stretch 3A of El Salvador's Longitudinal del Norte highway in October, an official from Fomilenio, the El Salvadorian chapter of the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) told BNamericas.   Work involves building a 10...

2010-08-23

The concessionaire of the access road to Chilean capital Santiago's Arturo Merino Benitez international airport, Autopista do Pacifico, will implement a free flow system in mid-2011, an official from the public works ministry's (MOP) concessions division told BNamericas.   The concessionaire ...