C.J. Schexnayder Cracks in the roads hampered the delivery of assistance into the damage zone from Lima. LIMA, Peru – With the award of the final two contracts for the $1.3–billion Interoceanic Highway that will create a paved connection between Peru's Pacific coast and the Altlantic, the necessity for improvements for the country's North–South coastal corridor – the Pan–American Highway – has become even more critical. But when the 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck the southern coast of Peru earlier this month, it threw an ongoing upgrade effort into disarray. The Aug. 15 earthquake caused severe cracking along the highway and
+ click to enlarge C.J. Schexnayder Gatun locks mark Atlantic side of Panama Canal. The Panama Canal Authority took a first step in the $3.35–billion effort to construct a new set of locks, with the Aug. 28 release of a request for pre–qualifications. The locks, which will be located on each end of the canal and add a new lane of traffic, are the largest and most complicated aspect of the $5.25–billion expansion of the historic waterway. It is expected to be completed in 2014. Often known by its Spanish–language acronym, ACP, the quasi–governmental organization intends to build both new
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
