2010-07-07

Brazil's Para state government is planning a 100mn-real (US$56.3mn) project to build a multimodal transport logistics platform at Maraba port, national cargo transport association ABTC reported in a release.   The platform will be located on the Tocantins river next to federal highway BR-230....

2010-07-07

Former Colombian economic development minister and ambassador to the US Luis Alberto Moreno was elected to a second term as the president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).   Moreno was voted in on Tuesday by the IDB board of governors. He will begin serving his second five-year te...

2010-07-07

Chilean President Sebastian Piñera and the president of the Union of South American Nations' (Unasur), Nestor Kirchner, met to discuss regional integration, among other issues, during the former Argentine president's visit to Chile on July 6-7, an official from the Chilean presidential office...

2010-07-06

Paraguay's public works and communications ministry (MOPC) is developing highway infrastructure and water and sanitation projects for Alto Parana department, the presidential website reported.   Authorities are negotiating a US$240mn loan from the Japanese government to fund a potable water p...

2010-07-06

Chilean authorities are once again doubting the feasibility of a project to build line 6 of capital Santiago's metro system, following concerns over the cost of compensating bus drivers for lost business, a transport and telecommunications ministry (MTT) official told BNamericas.   MTT is wor...

2010-07-06

The government of Mexico's Guanajuato state has awarded the concession of the Libramiento de Celaya tollroad to consortium Concesionaria Bicentenario, Fernando Garcia Canales, infrastructure and public-private partnership manager of the Spanish branch of consultancy firm Deloitte, told BNamericas. ...

2010-07-06

The Dominican Republic's congress will vote on a bill to create a new concessions law by mid-August, according to center-left Partido de la Liberacion Dominicana (PLD) congressman Alejandro Montas.   Congress will vote shortly on the legislation, which aims to boost infrastructure investment ...

2010-07-02

Panama's congress will receive a bill to create a state highway operator at its next regular session, the congressional website reported.   The authority, known as ENA, will manage and operate Panama City's Corredor Norte and Sur tollroads and the Panama-Colon highway, which the government is...