FCC has begun construction of Subway Line 1 Panama, a project budgeted at 1,000 million euros and the group claimed last October in partnership with Brazil's Odebrecht.
The start of works announced by the Panamanian Minister of Public Works, Federico Suarez, a week before the announced visit of Minister of Public Works official, José Blanco, Central American country.
subway construction is the third largest civil engineering contract that Panama launches in recent years, and given the fact that the previous two were also awarded to groups English.
Sacyr managed the construction of the third set of locks of the Panama Canal expansion and FCC's second largest contract of this historical work, access the Pacific.
The metro Panama is also the first mass transit system of its kind to be run in the area. With its construction, the country seeks to modernize public transport in the capital and replace the use of buses for more than four decades working in the capital.
The project involves the construction of a subway line nine miles in length, plus eleven stations, some of them on the surface.
The route runs from north to south and joins the center of Panama City to the suburbs to the east. It also links the national bus station to the mall 'Los Andes', located to the north.
is envisaged that the metro line has the capacity to carry more than 15,000 people per hour and direction only in the beginning of exploitation, but is expected to rise to 40,000 users on the horizon of 2035.
The FCC and Odebrecht consortium running the project is completed as a subcontractor supplier Alstom trains. The work, which is scheduled to start in January in order to be ready in December 2013 with funding from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Confederation Andina de Fomento .
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The project consolidates the business of FCC in this Central American country, where the group chaired by Falcones been executed in recent years important works. It also reinforces the group's experience in railway construction projects of all kinds, and particularly metropolitan railway.
In this sense, has implemented various sections of the suburban Madrid and Barcelona, \u200b\u200band currently builds the Málaga metro. Abroad, has participated in the construction of the Lisbon Metro in Athens and currently participates in the New Delhi and Singapore.
FCC also recently awarded, in consortium with OHL, the redevelopment of the Metro Toronto, for an amount of 304 million euros.
Via Europapress
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