Five months after the $107 million works were awarded, the contractor has not yet signed the concession contract for the construction and operation of the airport.
The delay in signing the contract between the government and the company Constructura de Servicios Aeroportuarios Integrados S.A. (Saisa), who won the tender in January of this year, will have an affect on the work schedule, which established that construction would start in the first half of 2015 and operations start in mid-2016.
The company of Chinese origin, Harbour Engineering Company, has acquired the requirements to participate in the tender for the construction of Palmerola airport.
This company is the sixth to present itself before the Promotion of Public-Private Partnerships (Coalianza) to purchase the tender specifications for the project that will cost about $130 million in its first stage.
With changes to the conditions, the tender process to award the construction of the bulk terminal of Puerto Cortés will be reopened.
According to Carlos Pineda, Coalianza's commissioner, they are still defining the type of process to be used in the new tender. "They have to change some conditions of the competition, but the project itself has not changed, it is the same and its basic structure is the same.
The contract for the construction, equipment, financing, maintenance and operation of the Honduran port terminal, was signed yesterday by COALIANZA, Banco Ficohsa and the Philippino company International Container Services.
The president of COALIANZA, Carlos Pineda, said that the signing of this contract with International Container Services (ICTSI) exceeded 25% of the estimated investment in the tender process, which initially was $500 million, with a final bid of $624 million .
Of the total numbers assigned, 26 million, 22.7 million are mobiles and only 3.3 million landlines.
At the end of the first half of 2011 there were 20.2 million registered numbers. Up until the end of August 2012, the Superintendency of Telecommunications (SIT) had delivered 26.03 million, 5.83 million in just over a year.
While the growth rate is unstable, so far this year 3.3 million cell phone numbers have been allocated versus 170,000 fixed telephone lines, said the administrator of the National Numbering Plan at the Superintendency of Telecommunications (Sit), Carlos Pineda.
The Commission for the Promotion of Public-Private Partnerships has signed an agreement with the international consortium MKG Group who will initially invest $15 million.
The first Special Development Region (RED, by its acronym in Spanish) will be built in Trujillo on the north coast of Honduras.
According to the agreement signed on Tuesday, the new cities will have their own legal and tax systems.
The Honduran Council of Ministers has approved a draft decree relating to a trust agreement for the structuring, development and financing of the operation of the bulk cargo terminal at Puerto Cortes.
From a press release by the Presidency of Honduras:
The Council of Ministers, of the government of President Porfirio Lobo Sosa , approved the draft decree on Tuesday relating to a trust agreement for the structuring, development and financing of the operation of a bulk cargo terminal at Puerto Cortes, at the request of the National Commission for the Promotion of Public-Private Partnerships (COALIANZA).
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