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REGIONALREPORT: LATINAMERICA
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BRAZIL
Sao Paulo - Río high speed rail
US$ 17.2 billion
608 km
Sao Paulometro Line 6
US$ 3.9 billion
15.9 km
Porto Alegremetro
US$ 2.20 billion 11.7 km
Río de Janeirometro Line 4
US$ 2.13 billion
16 km
Curitiba
US$ 1.93 billion
17.6 km
Sao PauloMonorail
US$ 1.73 billion
15 km
Este to Fortalezametro line
US$ 1.11 billion
12.4 km
MEXICO
Mexico City - Querétaros rail line
US$ 3.18 billion
212 km
Mexico Citymetro Líne 12
US$ 153millon
4.1 km
GUATEMALA
Guatemala Citymetro Line 1
US$ 180millon
25 km
CHILE
Metro Líne 3
US$ 1.72 billion
22 km
Metro Líne 6
US$ 1.04 billion
15.3 km
COLOMBIA
BogotáMetro
US$ 1.19 billon
26,5 km
ECUADOR
QuitoMetro
US$ 1.6 billon
22 km
PANAMA
Panama Citymetro Líne 1
US$ 1.8 billon
15.9 km
PERU
LimaMetro Line2
US$ 5.3 billon
35 km
LatinAmerican countries.
Front and centre is Brazil, with schemes underway
to improve urban rail transport in six major cities at
a cost of US$ 13 billion. In addition, the country has
ambitions to build Latin America’s first high-speed rail
link, a 608 km line between Rio de Janeiro and Sao
Paulo, with a spur to Campinas, at a cost of US$ 17.2
billion.
Meanwhile in Panama, the focus on the huge project
to expand the PanamaCanal has perhaps overshadowed
the fact that in April this year the country inaugurated
Central America’s first metro system. Built by as a
consortium including Spanish contractor FCC and
Brazil’sOdebrecht, theUS$2billion, three-year scheme
was delivered on time following the award of the
contract in 2010.
The 15.9kmLine 1has 14 stations, sevenofwhich are
underground, and crosses the city from north to south,
fromAlbrook national bus station to San Isidro station
witha23minute journey time.The secondphaseofLine
1 is currently under construction, with completion due
next year. Meanwhile the city is expected to put Line 2
out to tender later this year and is in the feasibility study
and planning stages for Line 3 andLine 4.
Elsewhere inCentral America, there is a project inGuatemala
City to rehabilitate some 25 km of disused urban railway lines
for use by trams ormetro trains. Re-using existing infrastructure
should help keep costs down for the Guatemalan government,
and the plan envisages six or seven stations along the route.
Metro extension
InMexicoCitymeanwhile, work is underway to extendLine 12
of theMetro system by some 4.1 km.More significant however
CLA
calculates that metro projects worth a total
of US$ 20.6 billion are currently underway or
close to being let across 11 major cities in seven
The recently completed “Valle De Los Vientos”wind farm in
the Antofagasta region of Chile can provide 90MW of power.
Crane rental company Gruas Burger performed lifting duties
for the client Enel Green Power using a Terex CC 2800-1
crawler crane, whichwas chosen for its 600 tonne capacity
and compact transport dimensions.
