In El Salvador, the contract for the financing, design, construction and operation of the San Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez International Airport Cargo Terminal is tendered under the Public-Private Partnership format.
The project contemplates two phases of development: Phase 1 consists of financing, design, expansion, construction, equipment, improvement of maintenance and operation of the existing Cargo Terminal.
Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica are the countries in the region with the best conditions to develop Public-Private Partnerships, followed by Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
The 2019 Infrascope index, which evaluates 23 indicators and 78 qualitative and quantitative sub-indicators in Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in Latin America, is prepared by The Economist Intelligence Unit and has the financial backing of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
The global relevance of companies seeking the award of a third port for container ships in the Pacific is a clear sign of the importance of Panama as maritime and logistics hub.
The companies pre-qualified to participate in the tender for the concession of a new port in Corozal are subsidiaries of the largest shipping companies such as Maersk-Denmark, MSC-Italy and CMA-CGM-France or are direct port operators, in this case the most important in the world, PSA from Singapore.
A contract has been signed for the start of works on the International Airport in Palmerola, Comayagua, so that operations can start in 2018.
Following the signing of the official contract, construction of the new International Airport in Palmerola, in the department of Comayagua, will begin in May, for operations to start in 2018. This was announced by the Spanish concessionaire EMCO Corporation.
MCA - Honduras is pre qualifying companies to build and operate a 20 MW hydroelectric plant on the site of Multipurpose Dam El Tablon.
Honduras Government Purchase PR-01-EL-2016 TABLON:
"The prequalification documents apply for prequalification of participants in the award for the right to use water, structures and state land for the construction of a dam for 4 years and operation for 25 years of a hydroelectric plant with a view to producing 20 MW of electricity at the site of the Multipurpose Dam El Tablon.
In Honduras shrimp producers may use land concessions granted by the State as collateral for loans to banks and financial institutions.
As part of the law to strengthen shrimp farming, there is a now a new legal instrument which will allow producers to use concession contracts awarded by the State as collateral for loans from financial institutions, whether they be national or international.
Decisions are being made whether to award in concession the construction and maintenance of the road from Tegucigalpa to the south of the country, whose expansion to four lanes is estimated at $70 million.
The eventual concession process for the work would be coordinated with Coalianza, who mentioned that they have already received expressions of interest in the project from 22 companies.
Currently being contemplated is the possibility of canceling the contract for the construction and management of the airport, awarded in January, and putting out a new tender for the procedure.
Due to the fact that airport safety in the country is now the responsibility of the government, the Commission for the Promotion of Public Private Partnerships (Coalianza) has announced that they are studying the possibility of canceling the contract which was awarded to Saisa, which included the management of security, and instead launching a new tender which would remove the issue of security from the contract.
The rate for concessions has increased from $5 to $40 per hectare under production, according to the new Law on Strengthening Shrimp Production.
The law passed by Congress in January this year and which entered into force on April 11, establishes as a ease term for areas for setting up and carrying out projects for shrimp farming, a period of twenty years, renewable for similar periods, and the fee per hectare under production is $40 per year.
The government has announced that it will revise all contracts awarded and projects that are not being run will be reassigned.
State institutions responsible for granting operating licenses to mining, forestry, clean energy generation and hydrocarbon projects, have a deadline of two weeks to complete the collection of all permits, licenses and concessions granted in the past two governments and present a report to President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who will decide whether or not to revoke the licenses that have not been executed in order to reallocate the revoked contracts to new investors.
President Hernandez has announced that this year he will revisit the Río Amarillo airfield construction project in Copán.
Although the signing of a trust agreement for the Río Amarillo airfield project was authorized in June 2013, the project was not awarded.
"The president said in the talk show, Frente a Frente, that the goal is that the Mayan city of Honduras has once and for all an airport to facilitate the arrival of foreign and domestic tourists," reported Laprensa.hn.
At the moment studies are being carried out on more than 160 applications from companies seeking to explore mining areas under the framework of the new legislation passed in 2013.
Since the adoption of the new Law on Mining operations in Honduras, the Honduran Institute of Geology has received more than 160 applications for exploration permits from mining companies.
A subsidiary of Terra Group will be responsible for the design, financing, construction, and maintenance and operation of the International Airport at Palmerola.
From a press release issued by the Commission for the Promotion of Public-Private Partnerships:
The Commission for the Promotion of Public Private Partnerships (COALIANZA) has awarded to Constructora de Servicios Aeroportuarios Integrados S.A.(SAISA), the Contract for the Design, Financing, Construction, Maintenance and Operation of Palmerola International Airport, which will be located in the city of Comayagua, on the road axis between Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula.
The company which is already operating other airports in Honduras was the only one to provide a technical and financial proposal for the award.
The Honduran company Servicios Aeroportuarios Integrados S.A. (Saisa), a subsidiary of Terra Group, submitted the technical and financial offer after being shortlisted along with the consortium of Colombian origin Concay SA, who ultimately decided not to present a proposal for the construction of the new terminal.
After a process that has gone on for several years in Honduras the start of the opening of bids for the concession of the international airport in Comayagua has begun.
Laprensa.hn reports: "The Commission for the Promotion of Public-Private Partnerships (Coalianza) announced the opening of public hearings for the contract with an investor interested in building Palmerola international airport."