Colombia’s nationwide infrastructure company (ANI) is to award a $600m public–non-public contract to construct, function and keep a freight rail hall, enterprise web site BNAmericas reviews.
The ten-year PPP contract might be signed earlier than the top of March, in keeping with a decision issued by the transport ministry on Tuesday.
The road will run for 526km north–south between La Dorada, a city about 120km from Bogotá, and Chiriguaná, a metropolis close to the Caribbean coast.
The mission, which can type the spine of Colombia’s railroad reactivation plan, will improve the prevailing trunk and department strains and match them with fashionable rolling inventory.
The mission has been in planning for a while. In 2023, web site eColumbiano reported that eight consortium had expressed curiosity in taking up the scheme.
The mission will embrace the development of two workplace constructing, a management centre, two upkeep workshops, a cargo switch centre in La Dorada and a site visitors management system. Twenty-eight stations might be refurbished and 22 bridges strengthened to take heavier trains.
Some 200km of line might be refitted with rails which are capable of assist a great deal of 52kg per metre, in contrast with 34kg at current. The pre-construction section is anticipated to take 15 months, adopted by a 49-month development section.
In accordance with ANI, the hall is anticipated to scale back transport prices on the route by 20% and facilitate connections with highways and different rail strains.
The La Dorada–Chiriguaná railroad transports development supplies equivalent to cement and metal, in addition to uncooked supplies for ceramics and paper. Different items carried embrace espresso, cocoa, fertilisers and agricultural merchandise.
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