A clarification meeting has been for the tender for an interchange on the Panamerican highway road whose reference price is $33 million.
The companies who attended the clarification meeting held by the Ministry of Public Works were: FCC Construcción de Centroamérica S.A., Alquileres y Ventas Panedi, Conalvías S.A., Ceiusa, Conconcreto, Constructora Meco S.A., and Heliopol PMA.
Banrural and the German Bank for Development and Investment have granted a loan to Servicios para Centrales S.A. to finish building the bus transfer terminal CentraNorte in Guatemala.
The Rural Development Bank (Banrural) and the German Bank for Development and Investment (DEG, by its German acronym), have agreed to pay $40 million to the company Servicios para Centrales S.A., to complete construction of the bus transfer terminal CentraNorte, reported Elperiodico.com.gt.
The Colombian company, Conconcreto, has announced an investment of $25 million to build the project.
The new bus terminal will have capacity to serve two million passengers a month, and will be built by Conconcreto and the company Servicios Para Centrales, originally from Guatemala, which will provide the remaining 50% of the investment ($25 million).
The complex will also have space for 300 banks, restaurants and shops.
In order to ease congestion of traffic coming from the East, a bus terminal will be built, which will be able to receive 2 million passengers per month.
Buses coming from that area will not have to go into the city, helping to improve traffic conditions in the capital, especially in rush hours.
The proposal by the Colombian company Aerotocumen was almost $11 million lower than the second best offer.
The contract includes the construction of the Muelle North (North Dock) terminal, the remodeling of the current terminal and the construction of a new administrative building for Tocumen, S.A.
The Aerotocumen consortium, which is made up of the Conconreto company and the Odinsa Group, made the best offer at $68.65 million.