The representatives of the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador reported that a U.S. company decided to withdraw from the tender process for lack of transparency, which is denied by Cepa.
Without giving details of the name of the company for security reasons, this week the counselor of Public Affairs of the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador, Tobias Bradford, reported that a company from his country decided to withdraw from the tender process for the concession of the Port of La Union, arguing "lack of transparency" and "uncertainty in the equality of conditions."
CEPA authorities in El Salvador announced that they are still drafting the bases for re-tendering the concession for the port terminal operation.
In August, the authorities of the Executive Autonomous Port Commission (CEPA) reported that in October they planned to publish the tender documents to manage the Port La Union. However, recently announced that the bases are not yet ready.
Authorities at the CEPA in El Salvador announced that in October they plan to publish, once again, the tender to grant the operation of the port terminal in concession.
In September 2017, here at CentralAmericaData we published: "Almost nine years after its inauguration, Puerto La Union in El Salvador is still not operating to its full capacity, and two years have now passed without a private company managing to take over its operation."
Aeroman has announced that it will be investing $45 million in the construction of the sixth aircraft maintenance and repair hangar at the Monseñor Romero airport in El Salvador.
Authorities at Aeroman said that the hangar, which will be located on the west side of the air terminal, will be larger than hangar 5, inaugurated in 2015, and will have capacity to accommodate larger aircraft.
The Mexican company Caabsa Constructora will be in charge of the expansion of the passenger terminal at Monsenor Óscar Romero international airport in El Salvador.
The award was announced by the Autonomous Port Executive Commission (CEPA) at a press conference held at the Presidential House in San Salvador.
For his part, Nelson Vanegas, president of the CEPA, explained to Elmundo.sv that " ...
Almost nine years after its inauguration, Puerto La Union in El Salvador is still not operating to its full capacity, and two years have now passed without a private company managing to take over its operation.
The explanation seems simple: There is no market for this port in the Pacific. Puerto La Unión, whose construction ended almost nine years ago, has not succeeded because there is no demand for cargo. The president of the Autonomous Executive Port Commission (CEPA) himself, Nelson Vanegas, recognizes it."..."The biggest problem is that there is no cargo.You can´t put the horse before the cart.You have to put first horse first, to pull the cart.This is a classic project in which they put the cart first, because there was no cargo'."
The Executive Port Commission plans to invest $9 million this year on modernization works at the Salvadoran terminal, and $20 million in the purchase of two RTG gantry cranes.
The head of the Autonomous Executive Port Commission (CEPA), Nelson Vanegas, announced that $9 million will be allocated towards improving the terminal's infrastructure.
A conflict of interest between the two ports has been revealed following a demand for the concession of the Puerto de La Union to include the Port of Acajutla.
The failure of the Puerto de La Union - the concession for which no longer even has any suitors - has a basic cause: neither today- nor in the medium term- is there enough maritime traffic for both terminals to have enough work.
The funds raised will be used to complete construction of waiting rooms and a food area and start works on four aircraft platforms and the parking area.
Pension operators were the main buyers of the securities placed by Hencorp Exchange on October 19 in the local market, as part of the total emission worth $78 million approved in 2012 to finance the expansion of the international airport.
International loans, public-private partnerships and now a securitizations are options that have emerged in recent years to fund the expansion of the capital's airport, which so far have remained on paper.
After raising the idea of a public-private partnership as the best alternative to finance the expansion of the international airport in San Salvador, the Autonomous Executive Port Commission (CEPA) is now indicating that this method "would take two years, which would be 'too long' for this terminal, whose capacity has been exceeded. "
Companies interested in the concession are not yet clear how the dredging of the access channel to the port will be financed and what impact will have the cost on the profitability of the project.
According to authorities at the Autonomous Executive Port Commission (CEPA), the cost of dredging must be assumed by the government of El Salvador, through them. However, the government has not included this project in its budget.
An announcement has been made that the Autonomous Executive Port Commission will extend the consultation period for pre qualified companies until January 23, 2015 and the receipt of bids until December 23rd.
The concession of the "white elephant" project in El Salvador is still behind schedule. As before, when it was put back until October, the Autonomous Port Executive Committee has confirmed that, at the request of the pre qualified companies, the deadline for consultations and for receipt of bids for the concession of the port will be extended.
The Autonomous Executive Port Commission of El Salvador is now considering extending the deadline for pre-qualified companies to complete the consultation process for bidding in the concession.
The never ending story continues...
Initially submission of bids was planned for December 2 but now they are considering giving another 15 days to 4 pre-qualified firms in order to respond to queries about the process and so that they are better able to present "... their final offers in the best way."
Six international companies have submitted proposals for the work convened by the Autonomous Executive Port Commission of El Salvador.
The first stage of prequalification began on September 4 and the companies which took part were: Jan De Nul, Baggerbedrijf De Boer Holding, Dredging International, Boskalis International, Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors and Rohde Nielsen.
The Autonomous Executive Port Commission is preparing a tender for the construction of a passenger waiting room and the remodeling of the parking spaces at the international airport in San Salvador.
According to information from the Autonomous Executive Port Commission (CEPA) of El Salvador, the waiting room will require an investment of about $5 million, and will be on the first floor of the airport terminal and will have capacity for 400 people.