TreviGroup will be visiting the country to meet with business leaders and government officials to evaluate business opportunities in the project of the Grand Canal and other construction areas.
TreviGroup construction company will meet with representatives of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (COSEP); the Nicaraguan Chamber of Construction (CNC) and government officials in order to find out about and evaluate participating in the construction of the Grand Canal and other construction opportunities in the country.
The consortium formed by the Nicaraguan Llansa Ingenieros, NAP Ingenieros y Nicaragua Ingenieros S.A has been subcontracted by HKND for preliminary works.
Elnuevodiario.com.ni reports that "...The works which began on December 22 consist of the construction of five temporary access roads, improving two existing access roads near port Brito and the West Lock proposed for the Canal, the clearing of a strip of 50 meters along the center line of the proposed route for the Canal and auxiliary facilities. "
Nicaraguan businesses are complaining that HKND may have begun to invite construction companies to participate in tenders to execute various works, and that after receiving the offers, the company declared them void.
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There is specific mention of a tender for the construction of a service road parallel to the Canal route.
In this regard the president of the Nicaraguan Chamber of Construction (CNC), Benjamin Lanzas, told Laprensa.com.ni that "one of the companies which took part in the tender, is negotiating with HKND over the construction of access roads in various sections among other projects. "
Business leaders will form part of the technical committee of advisers to the Grand Canal Megaproject in Nicaragua.
Joseph Adam Aguerri, president of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep) and Benjamin Lanzas, chief of the Nicaraguan Chamber of Construction were chosen by the board of Cosep as their representatives to the committee.
Also elected as alternates were Rodrigo Caldera of the Chamber of Industries, (Cadin) and Ricardo Meléndez of the Chamber of Urban Builders (Cadur) .