Two PPP proposals for Colombia's busiest corridor

Colombian highway concessionaire Infrastructura Concesionada (Infracon) has put forward a US$993 million public-private partnership (PPP) to add a third lane to the highway between the municipality of Girardot and capital Bogotá. The project would involve building a third 132 kilometre-long lane for and carrying out maintenance works on 151 kilometres of highway on the Bogota-Buenaventura, with works expected to last five years, said the president of the national infrastructure agency (ANI) Luis Fernando An
February 18, 2015 Read time: 1 min
Colombian highway concessionaire Infrastructura Concesionada (Infracon) has put forward a US$993 million public-private partnership (PPP) to add a third lane to the highway between the municipality of Girardot and capital Bogotá.

The project would involve building a third 132 kilometre-long lane for and carrying out maintenance works on 151 kilometres of highway on the Bogota-Buenaventura, with works expected to last five years, said the president of the national infrastructure agency (ANI) Luis Fernando Andrade.

The corridor, reported to be the busiest in Colombia, is currently operated by concessionaire Autopista Bogotá Girardot (CABG), whose concession is due to end in September.

A second PPP by the China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC), which could be joined by Mexico's Cemex, proposes the US$4.4 million construction of a ten kilometre expressway viaduct linking Soacha, a city located on the western outskirts of Bogotá, with the Ruta 68 highway.

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