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.
C.J. Schexnayder/ENR Balboa Port, Panama City, Panama. Each day thousands of cargo containers cross almost 50 miles of the Isthmus of Panama. But they aren’t going through the famed Panama Canal. In the past five years, traffic on a 47.6-mile railroad has jumped. It is a cooperative system between Panama Ports Co.—which operates primary container ports on both sides of the isthmus—and the Panama Canal Railroad Co. “The canal is the magnet that draws the cargo here,” says Dave Starling, president of the Panama Canal Railway Co. “Once the cargo is in Panamanian waters you have the opportunity for transshipment.”
C.J. Schexnayder/ENR Panama City, Panama – Benjamin Colamarco took over as head of Panama’s Ministry of Public Works one year ago at the request of President Martín Torrijos who is now in his second term of office. The 49-year-old economist previously served in both the Ministry of Economy and Ministry of Housing. The Ministry of Public Works is responsible for Panama’s more than 17,000 kilometers of roadway. Less than half of this is paved. The ministry also oversees public investment in infrastructure works. These have become critical topics in recent years with the dramatic increase in construction. The country’s recent
C.J. Schexnayder São Paulosubway line is key job for Camargo Corr�a, but a fatal accident halted some work. São Paulo, Brazil – In the past seven decades, Brazilian construction giant Camargo Corrêa has made its name building dams in its home country - almost 50 total. To better handle the future the company is looking to diversify into new fields including…flip-flop sandals. Founded in 1939 by former road laborer Sebastiao Ferraz de Camargo Penteado, the firm became one of the largest in Brazil by focusing on infrastructure development – particularly large hydroelectric projects. But in 1996 Camargo Corrêa began moving
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
