2010-04-26

Panama's civil aviation authority (AAC) will invest US$60mn to build a new international airport in northern Colón province, local paper La Prensa reported.   The airport will be built where the current aerodrome Enrique A. Jiménez is located.   A tender will be launched ...

2010-04-26

A special committee of Peru's private investment promotion agency ProInversión will invite bids to modernize and operate Callao port's Muelle Norte terminal in H2, according to transport and communications (MTC) minister Enrique Cornejo.   "We will carry out the process in a trans...

2010-04-26

Panama's economy and finance minister Alberto Vallarino has met with Hong Kong's metro authority MTR Corp to learn more about how the system operates in the territory, local paper La Prensa reported.   Panamanian authorities are studying international metro systems in preparation for the impl...

2010-04-21

T he World Bank is offering Argentine Tucumán province a US$16mn credit line for water and infrastructure works, local paper La Gaceta de Tucumán reported.   Resources will help expand the province's water, sewerage and drainage systems, as well as the provincial road network. ...

2010-04-21

El Salvador's Acajutla port and Comalapa airport handled 19% more cargo in 1Q10 compared to the same period in 2009, local paper El Mundo reported.   Cargo handling decreased 23% last year but 2010 has gotten off to a better start, according to the president of national ports authority (Cepa)...

2010-04-21

Fomilenio, the El Salvadorian chapter of the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), will sign contracts to begin building two new stretches of the Longitudinal del Norte highway on April 21, a Fomilenio spokesperson told BNamericas.  ...

2010-04-21

While Chile's insurance market has shown relative success in dealing with the earthquake that ravaged the country in late February, there is much more work to be done in Chile and across the region to make insurance penetration stick, Mario Marcel, head of IDB's Institutional Capacity and Finance Se...

2010-04-19

Argentina's Buenos Aires province will launch a tender to pave the first section of the Camino del Cereal road in western Guaminí district in 2H10, the provincial government reported on its website.   The first stretch to rehabilitate is 15km long and runs from Mones Cazón neigh...