2010-08-04

Colombia's new government, which takes office on August 7, will join the Carare railway to the central branch line of the national railroad network, Jaime Olivella, president of coal producers federation Fenalcarbon, told BNamericas.   "This is good news... the Carare branch is much more...

2010-08-04

Costa Rica's public works and transport ministry (MOPT) will spend US$33mn to rehabilitate 29 bridges along the Interamericana Norte highway, paper La Nacion reported.   Studies carried out by national road council Conavi and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) showed the bridge...

2010-08-04

Bi-oceanic integration initiatives were on the agenda when Chilean President Sebastian Piñera met this week with Brazilian head of state Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Bolivia's Evo Morales and Argentina's Cristina Fernandez, an official from the Chilean presidential office told BNamericas. &nbs...

2010-08-03

Jamaica's transport and works minister Michael Henry has signed a Cdn$19.9mn (US$19.4mn) contract to build two control towers at Kingston's Norman Manley and Montego Bay's Sangster international airports.   The contract with Canada's Intelcan Technosystems was signed at the Jamaica Civil Avia...

2010-08-03

The Andean Development Corporation (CAF) will provide loans totaling US$240mn for infrastructure projects in Argentina, the corporation said in a release.   Finance and economy minister Amado Boudou and CAF president Enrique Garcia have signed an agreement for a US$100mn loan, which will be u...

2010-08-03

Brazil's opposition PDSB party presidential candidate and former Sao Paulo state governor, Jose Serra, has said he will reconsider the country's 33.1bn-real (US$18.8bn) bullet train project if elected.   The funding set aside for the project could be used to complete the Norte-Sul railroad, b...

2010-08-03

Conglomerate Grupo Mexico (BMV: GMEXICOB) posted consolidated net earnings of US$310mn in Q2, up 30% year-over-year compared to US$239mn, on a 75.8% increase in consolidated sales, according to the company's quarterly results.   Consolidated sales in the second quarter jumped to US$1.896bn fr...

2010-07-30

Jamaica's government aims to resume its plan to restore the Jamaica Railway Corporation's (JRC) rail service, after putting it on hold for more than a decade, government information service JIS reported.   The government has created a new policy to identify, pursue and implement bankable sub-...