A contract has been awarded to Sigma Builders to expand 110 kms of the highway from Escuintla to Ciudad Pedro de Alvarado, on the border with El Salvador.
The work will be paid for with a $280 million loan awarded by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE), in which, according elperiodico.com.gt, "... it was specified that Sigma should be the company behind the project, due to the fact that the Government of Guatemala had already committed two contracts with the company, which had not been executed. "
An Environmental Impact Study has been presented for improvements to the RN-01 highway in the town of San Mateo, Department of Quetzaltenango.
The company Mantenimiento Vial y Construcción S.A. has presented an environmental impact study for the improvement works on the RN-01 highway, Rotonda La Licorera Estación 204+300 - Estación San Juan Ostuncalco, Estación 214 + 300, in the town of San Mateo, Department of Quetzaltenango.
Improvement works on 35 miles of road in the department of Quiché has been awarded to the company Construcciones, Servicios, Carreteras y Asesorías S.A.
The companies who participated in the public tender were Constructora Nacional S.A., which submitted a bid for $31 million and Constructora CODICO SA, whose bid was $30 million.
The company award the tender submitted a bid for $29.4 million, with a $1.4 million bond issued by Aseguradora Fidelis S.A.
An environmental impact study has been presented for a road improvement project of 40.7 kilometers of the highway leading to Puerto Quetzal, with an estimated cost of $74 million.
The General Department of Roads, Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing has presented an EIS to improve 40.7 miles of the CA-9 South road between Escuintla and Puerto Quetzal.
Preparations are being made for the renovation and expansion of 41 kilometers of the route between the department of Santa Rosa and Jutiapa, estimated at $45 million.
The General Department of Roads at the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing has presented the Environmental Impact Study for the renovation and extension of 41 kilometers of route CA-8 between Oratorio and Valle Nuevo, near the border with El Salvador.
The construction of 14 kilometers of road in Chimaltenango will be carried out by the company Constructora Nacional, which submitted the bid with the lowest amount.
Taking part in the public tender were the companies Construcciones, Servicios, Carreteras y Asesorías S.A., which submitted a bid of $43.9 million, Constructora de Obras Civiles S.A, with a bid of $43.2 million, SBI International Holdings, whose bid was $42,5 million and Norberto Odebrecht, whose bid was $55 million.
Two Spanish companies, one German, one Mexican, one French and one Guatemalan have been selected in the tender for the construction of a four-lane highway and commuter train.
The Companies Rios Ferrer, Guillén Llarena, Treviño y Rivera S.C. (Mexico) / Felipe Ochoa y Asociados (Mexico) / Consorcio Constructor, Supervisor y Certificador Internacional, S.A.
The 280 km stretch of road will run from Cocales, Suchitepéquez up to the border crossing between Guatemala and Mexico, Tecum Uman.
The Deputy Minister of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing (Micivi), Douglas Gonzalez announced the construction to be built using public funds which will be known as the "Border to Border" project.
"According to the Deputy Minister, the road section will cost $350 million and with a total fund of $280 million. The first phase of construction between Cocales Tecum Uman and is scheduled to end before the end of the Otto Pérez Molina administration and the other part could be advanced by 80 percent."
The contracts are for patching work, supervision, resurfacing of roads and main pathways, and bridge maintenance, among other things, on the national road network.
The Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing (CIV) is inviting bids for 430 road maintenance projects, through the Road Maintenance Fund, in which about $100 million will be invested.
Building a modern highway from Colombia to Mexico would provide a big boost to the economic integration of the isthmus.
Unlike the hitherto unproven economic viability of various other inter-oceanic canal projects (wet and dry) announced in virtually every country of the region, a "dry canal", which would improve the current transit conditions of goods and people from Mexico to Colombia, does appear to be the best investment in infrastructure for the isthmus.
The Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing in Guatemala is putting out to tender construction and supervision of works on the Departmental Capital Bypass road of Chimaltenango.
Subject of the tender:
Construction Services for the proposed construction of the Bypass Road in the departmental capital of CHIMALTENANGO, Route CA-01 OCC. Section: KM 48 CA-01 OCC. (San Miguel Morazan).
The expansion of the Atlantic Road will be funded with a donation of $50 million and other $50 million in loans.
The Taiwanese government will donate $50 million for the expansion of the Atlantic Highway, and has also authorized a soft loan for another $50 million for the project which has a cost of $119 million.
Lending by the Asian nation is at a rate of 1% interest, with a five-year grace period and payable over 20 years.
The Atlantic Highway will be expanded from mile 57 to 80, with partial funding from the Taiwanese government.
From a press release issued by the Government of Panama:
The Government of Guatemala in June signed an agreement with the Republic of China-Taiwan to complete the works for expanding and improving the Atlantic Highway from kilometer 57 to El Rancho, kilometer 80, during a working visit made by the president Otto Perez Molina to that nation.
The executive is negotiating a loan for the expansion of the road between Escuintla and Ciudad Pedro de Alvarado, in Jutiapa.
Aljenadro Sinibaldi, Minister of the Presidency, said that in the next few days a bill will be sent to Congress for acquiring these funds, which are part of the second phase of widening the road.
The loan for this project would be implemented by the Ministry of Communications, and was announced along with two other potential loans, one of $237 million to fund the current budget and one of $280 million for hospital investments.
The company TOPSA has pointed to the non payment of $4.7 million by the government as the reason for the suspension of works on extending the route between San Martin Jilotepeque in Chimaltenango, and Joyabaj in Quiché.
The suspension order received by TOPSA came from the company Consultora y Constructora Bea, S.A. which was hired to oversee the project for the Road Maintenance Unit (Covial) of the Ministry of Communications.