The Panama Canal Authority has initiated the search for a program manager who will help oversee the management of the $5.25-billion expansion project that includes the construction of two massive sets of new locks. C. J. Schexnayder Canal expansion management team will oversee 10 major contracts in a multi-year program estimated at $5.25 billion. Last Friday the ACP – the quasi-governmental body that oversees the historic waterway – released a request for proposal for the program manager position. The winning firm will assist the ACP in the management of approximately 10 major contracts, interfacing with both design and construction teams.
The $1.3 billion Interoceanic Highway project in Southern Peru will create a road connection linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans across the South American Continent.
With the election of Peruvian President Alan Garcia last July, one of the key priorities of the new administration was continuing the economic progress and a major aspect of that has been infrastructure. La Republica Zavala grapples with a highway system in a state of disrepair. The $1.3-billion InterOceanic Highway Project is just one of the major infrastructure projects currently underway in Peru. Major road projects in the north and central highlands are under way as well as a massive ongoing upgrade program. Overseeing that is the new Minister of Transportation Vernica Zavala Lombardi. The Harvard-trained lawyer previously served as
The United States and Panama signed a free trade agreement on Monday that, if approved by the legislative bodies of both countries, will greatly affect the ability of U.S. firms to participate in the planned $5.25-billion expansion to the Panama Canal. ACP Expansion will be a boon for dredge equipment suppliers. The two countries initiated free trade talks two years ago but the agreement was delayed until after a referendum in Panama last November that gave the green-light the canal expansion. The U.S. is Panama's largest trading partner and trade between the two reached $2.5 billion in 2005, a 22
The people of Panama have given the go-ahead to the most extensive overhaul of one of the modern world’s greatest engineering achievements. On Sunday, Oct. 22, almost 80 percent of voters approved a referendum that will allow a $5.25-billion expansion of the Panama Canal to proceed. The project consists of building a new lane of traffic along the existing canal through the construction of a new set of locks. In an interview the day after the referendum, Alberto Alemán Zubieta, the administrator of the Panama Canal Authority (or ACP), the autonomous government agency that maintains the waterway, said the project
Lima, Peru � A Brazilian consortium constructing a dam in Southern Brazil has come up with a plan to repair the damage that led to a failure in the structure�s diversion tunnels that led to the draining of the facility�s reservoir in June. The $523.9-million Campos Novos Dam was slated to go fully on-line this month but on June 20, two of three gates on a diversion tunnel built to divert the flow of the Canoas River failed. Officials now estimate more than 1 billion cubic meters of water from the reservoir flowed downstream and was captured by the reservoir
While the glory days of the Spanish conquest have ebbed into the Peru's uneasy past, its capital remains a major modern metropolitan center with all the headaches that entails. Mass transit ranks high among the problems it is struggling to bring under control. Currently, the city has undertaken an ambitious public works program that is designed to transform the chaotic road system into an organized network of upgraded thoroughfares and efficient mass transit. The 20-year plan, an extension of efforts begun in the mid-1990s, has begun to take physical form with the Miguel Grau Freeway in the heart of central
