The Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Utilities in Honduras is putting out to tender the construction, expansion and renovation of 86 kilometers of the CA-5 Highway South.
Honduras Government Purchase LPI-DGC-005-UEBM-2015
"Construction, expansion and renovation of the Southern Highway CA-5: Tegucigalpa Jicaro Galan Sections: Peripheral Ring Intersection - Detour to Aldea Santa Rosa (5.00 Km) Detour to Aldea Santa Rosa - Detour to Sicatacare (20.00 km); Detour to Sicatacare - La Venta del Sur (24.4 km) and La Venta del Sur - Jicaro Galan (37.18 Km) ".
A publication by the CAF reviews the development of five projects implemented using the public-private partnership model for infrastructure investment in Latin America.
From the Presentation document by the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF):
In recent decades, many Latin American countries have launched public-private partnership projects for the construction, maintenance and operation of public infrastructure.
Building a road connecting Panama with South America through Colombia would open up a wide range of opportunities for business and economic development in Central America.
EDITORIAL
Panama has the responsibility to take on the challenge of building a road through the jungle area of the Panamanian territory and open up a channel of communication with Colombia, to allow the power transmission and the connectivity of people and goods Centralamerica needs with the south.
With $27 million the World Bank will be financing from August the construction of the 26 kilometers of the road between Bluefields and San Francisco in the municipality of Nueva Guinea.
The road will be built with reinforced concrete within a period of two years and the Costa Rican company MECO SA will be running the project.
Omar Jimenez, representative of MECO, told Elnuevodiario.com.ni that they have "..." a strategy for working in the area considering it rains nine or ten months a year, but we have experience in such work and expect to carry it out within the stipulated time. '"
Together with two Korean companies a Master Road Plan for the country is being developed which foresees the construction and renovation of 4,500 kilometers of roads in the next twenty years.
From a statement issued by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MTI):
The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (MTI) with the support of the Republic of Korea, has delivered the results of the final report of the Master Plan for the Road Network in Nicaragua.
China Harbour Engineering Company, one of the bidders in the tender for Line 2 of the Panama Metro and a contractor for road works in Costa Rica, is ineligible to participate in projects financed by the World Bank.
Given the criticisms over its main involvement (60%) in one of the consortia which submitted bids for the construction of the Panama Metro Line 2, a spokesperson for China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) Latin America argued that "..
The Central American Bank for Economic Integration has approved a loan of $149 million for the construction of 126 miles of road between the towns of Mulukukú and Siuna.
From a statement issued by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE):
The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE) and the government of Nicaragua signed a loan for $149.2 million to finance the 'Project to Improve Rural Roads and Highways with a Connection to the Nicaraguan Caribbean '.
The National Assembly has approved a loan from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration for hydraulic cement paving of 45 kms of the stretch passing through La Gateada- Naciones Unidas - Bluefields.
From a statement issued by the National Assembly of Nicaragua:
The National Assembly unanimously approved on January 27, a Loan Decree to finance the Road Connectivity Project on the Caribbean coast, which will be implemented by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure.
The Road Maintenance Fund of Nicaragua is inviting qualified consulting firms in the country, to bid in a tender for project management of periodic maintenance of the road network.
The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a loan of $61.5 million to improve access by road to the South Atlantic Autonomous Region.
From a statement issued by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has announced the approval of a loan of US $61.5 million to Nicaragua to improve the quality of transport services and national and international integration of the country.
Nicaraguan businesses are complaining that HKND may have begun to invite construction companies to participate in tenders to execute various works, and that after receiving the offers, the company declared them void.
Editorial
There is specific mention of a tender for the construction of a service road parallel to the Canal route.
In this regard the president of the Nicaraguan Chamber of Construction (CNC), Benjamin Lanzas, told Laprensa.com.ni that "one of the companies which took part in the tender, is negotiating with HKND over the construction of access roads in various sections among other projects. "
The conceptual advantage that is raising the country above its Central American neighbors is demonstrated by the implementation of the project for Line 3 of the Panama Metro between Albrook and Ciudad del Futuro.
EDITORIAL
The presentation of the environmental impact study for Line 3 of the Panama Metro, funded by the International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and prepared by URS HOLDINGS is a clear sign of the will of Panamanians to continue strengthening the foundations of economic and social development through the construction of communication routes, which is in keeping with what is clearly taught by the history of mankind: communication generates progress.
A number of projects are being prepared for 2015 including drainage works and channel stabilization, installation of traffic lights, construction and improvement of roads in the capital.
Part of the work to carried out includes "... The creation of an alternative route to the Country Club Golf Course -Sabana Grande - with complementary works, drainage works in Santa Rosa, stabilization of La Primavera spring in its third phase, and the seventh stage of the Park 'Luis Alfonso Velázquez Flores.'"
The Chinese government and the concessionaire HKND have announced that on December 22 work will begin on the project with the construction of secondary roads and ports.
In the first part of the presentation given by the Chinese company to the government and businessmen, feasibility, environmental, and social studies, for the market and design work were presented.