Three companies, Prointec, SGS and Naco, will turn in their proposals in the coming weeks to the administration of Tocumen Airport.
After completing updating the 2004 master plan, authorities will proceed to put out to tender the design of the new project, explained Juan Carlos Pino, manager of Tocumen SA.
"To facilitate access to the new facilities, we will create a direct entrance from the South Highway and for that we are doing soil tests and studies to modify the Tocumen River," adds Prensa.com.
The Dutch-American Consortium will analyze the best alternative for building a vehicular pass in the Atlantic end of the Canal.
lowest among the five participants, $895.000.
The remaining participants were T-Y-Lin/ Fugro Panamá/ Mott MacDonald/Omniconsult ($ 943,000.00), Moffat & Nichol/ Arup USA, Inc ($ 954,059.00), The Louis Berger Group/Amman&Whitney/ D2 Consult ($ 1,248,713.92) and TYPSA / CFC SL ($ 1,495,000.00).
6 companies will supervise the construction of the Transverse Northern Highway (known as FTN, "Franja Transversal del Norte", in Spanish).
Four of them are from Guatemala: "Consultora en Proyectos de Ingeniería y Sistemas"; "Aquaingeniería, S.A."; "Tecnología y Normas, S.A.," and "Oficina de Ingeniería Raúl Meza Duarte". The other two companies are "Euroestudios S.L", from Spain, and "The Louis Berger Group, Inc", from the United States.