2010-04-30

Chile's public works ministry (MOP) is drawing up a concessions calendar that is expected to be ready in two weeks, an official from the ministry's concessions division told BNamericas.   Ministry officials are reviewing concession tenders that are already underway and those that were expecte...

2010-04-30

The natural disasters that hit Haiti, Chile, Mexico and Brazil in the early part of 2010 have hammered home the dangers faced by Latin American and Caribbean countries, as they claw toward economic recovery after the downturn beginning in late 2008, as we saw in the first part of this two-part serie...

2010-04-30

Peru's private pension fund managers (AFPs) may invest up to US$525mn in infrastructure projects this year, according to AFP Horizonte's investment manager, Gonzalo Camargo.   AFPs have put US$300mn towards their own infrastructure fund, and another US$225mn towards a fund managed by Canada's...

2010-04-28

Uruguayan capital Montevideo's municipality (IMM) is evaluating a highway concession project on Avenida Italia avenue, an official from IMM's traffic division told BNamericas.   The initiative was submitted by a private firm in 2002, but was never carried out. However, authorities have review...

2010-04-28

Colombia's transport ministry will launch the tender for the Concesión del Nor-Oriente airport concession package this week, the ministry's air and railway coordinator Luz Marina Ramírez told BNamericas.   The package involves a total of six airports: Norte de Santander departme...

2010-04-28

Jamaica's national works agency (NWA) will begin a US$65.7mn project to improve the Palisadoes highway in capital Kingston in July, government information service JIS reported.   The two-lane highway will be expanded to four lanes and maintenance will also be carried out to repair cumulative ...

2010-04-28

Panama's civil aviation authority (AAC) has selected Argentine construction firm Riva to carry out the expansion of the Enrique Malek airport in Chiriquí province capital David, an official from AAC told BNamericas.   The evaluating committee made the recommendation after Riva presente...

2010-04-26

Mexico's transport and communications ministry (SCT) has given the green light to a plan by US rail company Kansas City Southern's (NYSE: KSU) Mexican subsidiary KCSM to build a multimodal terminal at Michoacán state's Lázaro Cárdenas port.   The terminal will occupy 181h...