The long-awaited railway connection between the two countries depends on the rehabilitation of the Doctor Rodolfo Robles bridge in Ayutla, San Marcos, which would be done this year.
According to the Guatemalan Ministry of Communications, under current conditions the bridge cannot support the load of a locomotive and using that section would be a high risk.
In Guatemala, the government announced that plans to invest nearly $143 million this year in repairing and maintaining the country's road network.
According to representatives of the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing (CIV), among the investments projected stand out the maintenance and repair of bridges, signaling of vertical and horizontal routes, works of sealing of cracks, works of repair of the route CA-2 East and of the CA-2 West, and more works.
After the number of users in operation in Guatemala grew 9% between 2016 and 2017, during the period between 2017 and 2018, the increase was only 2%.
According to the statistical bulletin of the Second Semester - 2018, prepared by the Telephony Regulation Management of the Superintendence of Telecommunications (SIT), between 2017 and 2018 the number of users in the country increased by 481,038, going from 19.9 million to 20.4 million.
Two multipurpose cranes with the capacity to mobilize 600 tons will begin operating at Guatemala's maritime terminal on December 12th.
Representatives of the Ministry of Communications informed that the new cranes of Operadora Logística de Guatemala, S.A., the company that won the tender to provide the service, have a $6 million cost each.
The Guatemalan government will liquidate the works contract to extend 100 km of the CA2 East highway, which connects the department of Escuintla and the border with El Salvador.
The Ministry of Communications announced that this month they plan to liquidate the contract with Sigma Constructores, which had as objective to expand from two to four lanes the stretch of road that goes from Escuintla and ends at the border Ciudad Pedro de Alvarado, Jutiapa Department.
Following the disasters caused by the Fuego Volcano in Guatemala, authorities stated that they will be investing $31 million to recover a 17-kilometer stretch of road.
Representatives from the Ministry of Communications, said that the works to renovate the highway section of the RN14 route, will have an approximate duration of 18 months.
More competitive prices, broadband expansion and number portability are some of the benefits that are not being taken advantage of in Guatemala because the regulations there have not been modernized.
The regulations in the country have been in force since 1996, and according to representatives from the sectors involved in the activity, they have become obsolete in some aspects, as coverage thereneeds to be improved and frequencies assigned in order to exploit the spectrum to the maximum.
Following the Guatemalan government's liquidation of road works contracts with Brazil's Odebrecht, it has been announced that the date to submit bids in the new contests will be April 6.
The presentation of offers in the new competitions had been set for March 23, and after the Ministry of Communications completely rescinded the contracts with the construction company Odebrecht, representatives of the executive announced that the proposals for the works on 140 kilometers of the CA-2 road, will be received on April 6.
After multiple attempts to liquidate the contract and collect the bonds for the road works that were awarded to the Brazilian construction company, the Guatemalan government has finally received the money and will be able to tender the works again.
Representatives from the executive board announced that they have already received two bonds corresponding to the road works for 140 kilometers of the CA-2 highway, meaning that the path to bidding for new contracts is practically open.
The government of Guatemala has agreed with the Brazilian construction company to bring forward the termination of contract for extending the CA-2 Occidente highway and will launch a tender for three contracts to complete the remaining 97-kilometer stretch.
The contract was awarded to construction company Odebrecht in 2012, and after the corruption cases the that it was involved in came to light, the government of Guatemala decided to negotiate the early termination of the contract. The head of the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing (CIV), Aldo García, told Elperiodico.com.gt that "... because of the reservation there has been over the investigation of this case, it can only be anticipated that the agreement reached with the company is under legal review, a company which in 2012 obtained the contract for the extension of the CA-2 Occidente highway for US $399 million."
The Government of Guatemala plans to delegate to the United Nations Office for Project Services the supervision and execution of road works valued at more than $500 million.
The fate of road projects essential for the development of Guatemala could be as bad as some of those in Costa Rica, which have also been delegated to the United Nations Office of Projects (UNOPS).See "Challenges to the work of UNOPS".
This year the government plans to allocate $110 million to tenders for works on renovations, cleaning and improvement of roads in different parts of the country.
The plan put forward by the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing (CIV) is to invest $110 million in the renovation of 10,100 kilometers of roads throughout the country, including street patching, terracing and cleaning.
While options are being evaluated to terminate the contract with Odebrecht to build the CA-2 Occidente road, the government will be putting out to tender maintenance of the sections that were left unfinished.
The Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing will first make a "visual inspection" to determine the actual state of the road, both the sections which have been completed but damaged and sections that have not yet been completed.
The government has announced that through an agreement with Taiwan funds will be obtained for expansion works on the CA-9 North highway.
The Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing informed Diario de Centroamerica that"...It is expected that in March a Taiwanese mission will visit the country to review the works that will be carried out ... and they have prepared the plans for the project and, from next week, circulation schedules will be more flexible, which will ease traffic loads."
Consideration is being given to granting a concession for the stretch of 15 kilometers of the route from Libramiento to Chimaltenango, which would operate using tolls.
The Government is considering granting a concession to develop this stretch of the road and the company that wins the contract would manage the tolls.The 2017 road renovation plan submitted by the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing includes tendering the construction of several sections of road, for which $221 million is available.
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