Three teams compete for Autopista al Mar 1

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Three teams compete for Autopista al Mar 1

Colombia's National Infrastructure Agency (ANI) has announced that three teams are competing for the Sea highway 1 'Autopista al Mar 1′, which belongs to the 'Autopistas para la Prosperidad' package of highway projects.

The three teams are the following:

The project will connect the city of Medellín and the Sea highway 2 "Autopista al Mar 2"It includes the following road stretches that add up 176 km: Occidente-San Jerónimo, San Jerónimo-Santafé de Antioquia and Bolombolo-Santafé de Antioquia. The project involves the construction of 17 tunnels and 41 bridges.

The total project investment is estimated at P1.46 billion (US$573.5 million).

The project is part of the second wave of 4G highway projects, which includes a total of 9 concessions. This second wave includes a total investment of about P11,800 billion (US$4.64 billion). 4G involves the construction of about 8,000km of roads, including 1,200km of four-lane highways, with the majority of projects to be carried out as PPPs.

Yesterday we reported that ANI awarded the "Transversal del Sisga" Sisga - Aguaclara road PPP project to the consortium Estructura Plural Conexión Centro Oriente SPV.

During the last two weeks we have reported about several road PPP projects in Colombia:

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