Category: Infrastructure
Coverage of Panama’s roads, bridges, metro, water, power and public works projects, including delays, costs and what they mean for daily life.
5 year delay about to end as Amador Convention Center set to open
After five years of delay, including the abandonment of the first contractor, assignment of contract and failures in the execution of the works, everything indicates that the construction of the convention center in Amador is about to end. The company China State Construction Engineering Corporation Ltd. (CCA) informed the Administrator of the Tourism Authority of…
ODEBRECHT grip on Tocumen extended with addendum
The Comptroller General of the Republic received on Monday, June 3, the documents of the addendum five signed by Tocumen, SA and the construction company Odebrecht to extend the presence of the company in the construction of the new passenger terminal. The airport management had assured that the company would leave the project on May…
Final cost of New Tocumen terminal will skirt $1 Billion
The expansion project of the Tocumen International Airport will cost the National Government $ 917 million in total; that is, $ 137 million more than its original price, confirmed yesterday the general manager of Tocumen International Airport, SA (AITSA), Óscar Ramírez, during the presentation of the management report for the period 2014-2018. The design and construction…
Flight from Chile marks first use of Tocumen Terminal 2 – prior to WYD influx
At approximately 4:44 p.m. arrived at Terminal 2 of Tocumen International Airport, the first commercial flight from Chile. The first commercial flight belongs to the Panamanian airline Copa Airlines. This Tuesday, January 21, Terminal 2 opened partially by enabling the five boarding doors to receive flights. It is expected that by the end of June 2019,…
Metro Line getting a shaky start as WYD approaches
In the early hours of the morning, the Panama Metro announced through social networks that they had energy problems in their internal network. ‘We face energy drawbacks. We have not been able to start the commercial service in the regular schedule.Maintenance staff works on resetting systems’ published Metro. The head of maintenance of the trains, Carlos…
Much anticipated Mass Metro line to start Test runs
From this Monday, January 14, the Panama Metro began the period of blank march of line 2. They carry out tests with trains on line 2 of the Metro for WYD That is to say, a test of the system, without counting on passengers yet. The blank march will be extended until January 17 and…
As Tocumen expands, energy use will explode. Original Odebrecht sub-station was granted to public bid
The energy demand of the Tocumen International Airport will triple when the new passenger terminal (T2) comes into operation at the end of next April. The current terminal (TI), which has 34 boarding gates and which last year handled more than 16 million passengers, has a daily demand of 6 megawatts. With the new building…
UPDATE: Chilibre water plant back at 100% capacity
The water treatment plant Federico Guardia Conte, is working 100%, after completed the repair work on a pipe of 18 “that on Tuesday afternoon had presented a break in the area of Gonzalillo. The information was confirmed by the Institute of National Aqueducts and Sewers from its official Twitter account. The works culminated at approximately…
Comptroller calls for bond to exceed $220 Million for Odebrecht project at Tocumen for protection
OP ED: by James “JB” Bryson A necessary step and actually shocking that the government does not have the ability to get out of bed with these pre-existing agreements with such a dangerous and sullied enterprise. Tocumen, SA will expand the scope and amount of the fourth addendum to the contract it has with the…
Humbert at it again! Now he’s even looking up the Olympic Committee rear end. Thank YOU?
The Comptroller General of the Republic, Federico Humbert , revealed yesterday that the audits of the millionaire funds that the Panamanian Sports Institute (Pandeportes) allocated to the circuital parties of deputies will include all the sports federations and even the Olympic Committee of Panama (COP ). Pandeportes: thousands of dollars for areas where there are…