Without having read the contract with the construction company and ignoring final costs, the Legislature has approved the loan with the Chinese government to finance the extension of the road to Limón.
The loan with the government of China for $485 million is tied to a commercial contract with the Chinese state-run construction company CHEC, highly questioned not only technically but at the legal level, since it is one of the companies "... included in the list of companies ineligible for dealing with the World Bank until 2017 because of fraudulent practices in the Philippines ".
In Costa Rica the type of asphalt available is the AC-30 type, which is the only kind imported by state run company Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleo, which has a monopoly on the import of petroleum and its derivatives.
'... Regardless of whether the area is hot, cold, rains a lot or a little, or if there is high or low traffic levels, in Costa Rica there is only one type of asphalt used for road construction. "
Complaints have been made that the bill awarding construction of the Caribbean route to a Chinese company was approved without preliminary drawings, calculation of materials and study of costs.
Grupo Consenso believes that it is "unacceptable" that the Committee on Financial Affairs agreed to accept as reasonable the cost presented by China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), in the amount of $465 million.
Semanariouniversidad.ucr.cr reports that "Of the 22 maintenance contracts given by Conavi around the country, this firm were awarded 13, ie 60% of all projects. In total the company has received maintenance contracts worth over $133.4 million.
The new Minister of Public Works has acknowledged decades of delays in maintaining the country’s bridges, and has announced a tender for repairs and maintenance.
Minister Castro enlisted the help of the National Laboratory of Materials and Structural Models of the University of Costa Rica (LANAMME), to ensure the technical validity of the tender to be convened for the repair of bridges on roads which are vital to the country.
According to an article in Elfinancierocr.com, "The decree published formalizing the guide provides for the establishment of a Permanent Review Committee (PRC), which will be composed of representatives from MOPT, the National Highway Council (Conavi ) LANAMME, Association of Engineers and Architects of Costa Rica (CFIA), Roads and Highways Association of Costa Rica and Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (ITCR)."
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