Peru pushes Lima airport expansion
Concessionaires of Lima's Jorge Chávez airport expansion, which last month were awarded 280ha of adjoining land needed for the US$1.2bn project, got another boost as the government made additional land available.
Peru's air force signed an accord to temporarily cede 44,603m2 of adjoining land to Lima Airport Partners (LAP), according to the government. The land can provide parking for eight jets and additional workspace.
The expansion, which involves construction of a second terminal, runway and control tower, is one of Peru's biggest transport infrastructure projects and aims to handle Peru's growing flow of tourists. Jorge Chávez currently handles 23mn passengers per year.
"We hope with these facilities that work will be reciprocal on the concessionaire's part to speed up the timetable and finish construction as soon as possible," President Martín Vizcarra said in a statement.
Additional ongoing projects around the airport include the Santa Rosa avenue access to the airport, a construction contract signed November 5; and the 106mn-sol (US$33mn) repaving of the 27.9km Nestor Gambetta road, according to the transport and communications ministry.
Studies for the Óscar R. Benavides roundabout and bypasses over Santa Rosa avenue, meanwhile, are scheduled for completion by April 2019, the ministry said.
"This will contribute to providing a better service, and together with steps that have already been implemented, will make it possible to reduce waiting periods for passengers," deputy transport minister Carlos Estremadoyro said in a separate statement.
LAP, which in September awarded the expansion contract to FCC Construcción, Salini Impregilo and AECOM, aims to enable the airport to handle 40mn passengers annually by 2030, according to the foreign trade and tourism ministry.
Delays in infrastructure projects such as the airport are largely due to excessive bureaucracy, which has lengthened permitting processes, according to Leonie Roca, head of infrastructure association Afin.
"Infrastructure planning has long been a weakness in Peru and continues to be today," Roca said at an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) infrastructure conference in Lima.
In other infrastructure news, state highway agency Provías is scheduled to finish the 19.3mn-sol El Tingo bridge in Cajamarca region by the end of the year, the ministry said in a statement.
The 75m bridge, which will benefit 13,000 locals and replace 40-year-old infrastructure, is 90%-completed, according to the ministry. Cajamarca was one of the hardest hit regions by flooding last year.
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