In El Salvador, the Autonomous Executive Port Commission announced that in 2022 it will determine the management model for the Pacific Airport and in 2023 it will begin construction.
Currently, the Feasibility Study is being developed by the International Consortium PEYCON - ALBEN 4000.
In Guatemala, according to the air transport union, the project of the new cargo airport to be developed in the Port of San Jose, Escuintla, is unfeasible in operational and commercial terms.
In El Salvador, 30 companies were prequalified to participate in the international competition for the elaboration of the feasibility study for the construction of the Pacific Airport.
A total of 44 national and foreign companies expressed interest and also completed the information required to participate in the international public bidding, informed the Executive Autonomous Port Commission (CEPA).
The Central American Integration Bank approved the awarding and signing of contracts for various works, which together amount to $36.6 million.
The funds are part of the Debt Conversion Program of Honduras against Spain, which is administered by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), reported the multilateral organization.
In Honduras, technical assistance services for work management, control and surveillance at Palmerola Airport are being tendered.
Honduras Government Purchase IFIP-HE-CPIL-01-2019:
"The aim of the project is to provide the necessary engineering work for the execution of technical assistance for the management of work, control and surveillance at Palmerola Airport.
The plan to build a new international airport in Orotina, which ex-president Solis presented grandiloquently last year, is not a priority for the current Costa Rican government.
A year and a half ago, the administration of President Luis Guillermo Solis announced that the international air terminal would open in a first phase in 2027, and the overall cost of the project was estimated at $2 billion.
Terminal 2, whose opening is scheduled for next year, promises to improve conditions at the Panamanian airport, making it competitive with other hubs in Latin America.
The new Terminal 2, which is 92% complete, will have capacity to serve aircraft in 20 contact doors and 8 remote locations, taxiways, parking platform and aircraft circulation, adding up to pavement surface measuring more than 250,000 square meters.
A US company has submitted an environmental impact study to build an international airport in Limón, Costa Rica, which will have a 4-kilometer runway, an 18,000 square meter passenger terminal and a 30,000 square meter warehouse.
The new Metropolitan International Airport could start operating in 2027 with an estimated traffic of 7.8 million passengers, and an estimated $1.9 billion initial investment.
The government has presented the results of the siting study, basic design and master plan for the new airport, to be located in Orotina.
The approval of the contract by the Congress of Honduras authorizes the State to co-fund with $76 million the project awarded to Inversiones EMCO.
From a statement issued by the National Congress of Honduras:
The National Congress approved in a session on Tuesday, in a second debate, the contract for the construction of Palmerola international airport and the new Law on Decentralization of the State of Honduras.
In this regard, approval was given on a second reading, of the the draft decree sent by the Executive Branch, which contains the concession contract for the project "Design, Construction, Financing, Operation and Maintenance of Palmerola international airport of the Republic of Honduras. The approximate cost of the project is 163 million dollars and the contract for the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of the International Airport in Palmerola, which was signed on March 31, has a concession period of 30 years.
The British company Mott McDonald will have twelve months to complete the site study, basic design and master plan for the new airport, which will be located in Orotina.
Honduran businessmen project that exports will increase when the new airport starts operating, and they are negotiating with the concessionaire for the cargo area to be larger than planned.
Exporting companies are those that have the highest expectations for the construction of the new international airport, the construction and operation of which has now been granted in concession to the Spanish company EMCO.
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.
Local businessmen have announced that there are already studies on a plot of land measuring 2,500 m2 to build an international terminal in the northern Honduran Caribbean.
The private organization known as Oficina de Proyecto e Inversiones (IPO) plans to build an international airport in the city of Trujillo, capital of Colón, in the northern Honduran Caribbean.
In Costa Rica ten companies from Spain, France, the USA and the UK presented their proposals for the feasibility study to build an airport in Orotina.
The Ministry of Transport and Public Works (MOPT) reported that they are currently in the process of reviewing the bids. If the process goes smoothly, "... the order to start could be given in April this year."
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