Peru lands second metro loan

Peru has secured additional funding for its US$5.8 billion Lima metro line No.2 project, which is due to be completed by 2020. Just a day after receiving a US$750 million from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Caracas-based lender CAF agreed to lend a further US$150 million, the third loan it has granted the initiative. "This approval complements the support CAF has been providing Peru in the search for urban transport solutions," CAF president Enrique García said in the statement. The L
December 11, 2014 Read time: 2 mins

Peru has secured additional funding for its US$5.8 billion Lima metro line No.2 project, which is due to be completed by 2020. Just a day after receiving a US$750 million from the 5982 Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Caracas-based lender CAF agreed to lend a further US$150 million, the third loan it has granted the initiative.

"This approval complements the support CAF has been providing Peru in the search for urban transport solutions," CAF president Enrique García said in the statement.

The Lima metro is "a hi-tech, non-polluting transport system that will help improve living standards of the inhabitants of this city," he said.

The metro, which has already awarded studies for a third line, is Latin America's largest infrastructure project, Peru's President Ollanta Humala said.

A consortium made up of Spain's ACS and FCC, Italian companies Impregilo and AnsaldoBreda and Peru's Cosapi, which was awarded the 35-year concession in March, will build 35 kilometres of tunnels and 35 underground stations.

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