2010-06-10

Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo has received a proposal from two agricultural cooperatives to build a grain terminal and cold storage facility in Itapua department, the presidential website reported.   The terminal would be capable of handling 1Mkg/h of cargo and would require an investmen...

2010-06-10

Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla has said that the San Jose-Caldera highway may be closed, after complaints over landslides along the 77km route.   "Technicians [from the public works and transport ministry (MOPT)] have clear instructions to monitor the route on an hourly basis. Th...

2010-06-10

Chile's private sector and region V authorities are joining forces to complete construction of a high-speed train linking port city Valparaiso to capital Santiago within the next four years, an official from Valparaiso's municipality told BNamericas.   The private initiative was submitted to ...

2010-06-09

Colombia's concessions institute Inco has extended the deadline to present technical and financial bids for the third stretch of highway Ruta del Sol to June 10, local paper La Republica reported.   The June 8 deadline was pushed back at the request of the attorney general to allow time to re...

2010-06-09

Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state roads department (DER) has announced the start of bridge and road projects worth some 14.5mn reais (US$7.9mn) throughout the state.   A project to build a bridge over the Murie river in Itaperuna municipality will begin shortly. The 218m-long and 13.3m-wide struc...

2010-06-09

Argentine Buenos Aires city's urban development minister Daniel Chain has said tenders for new stations on metro line H are under review, the city website reported.   "In the next [few] weeks, we will launch the tenders to complete this route with the missing stations," Chain told p...

2010-06-09

The local government of Honduras' second biggest city, San Pedro Sula, should negotiate with private firms to obtain funding to build pedestrian overpasses required in the city, the national construction chamber's local representative, Osmin Bautista, told BNamericas.   "Private firms ca...

2010-06-04

Honduras' national congress has approved a motion to request 2bn lempiras (US$106mn) in funding from IDB and other organizations to repair highway infrastructure damaged by tropical storm Agatha, paper La Prensa reported.   The requested funding, which will have to be ratified by President Po...