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A consortium has won the deal to build and operate Mexico’s 107km-long Tuxpan-Tampico highway

In Mexico a consortium headed by Moto-Engil has won the contract to build and operate the 107km-long Tuxpan-Tampico highway. According to Business News Americas, the winning bid that included a works cost of US$260 million, a subsidy of $95 million and venture capital of $73 million. Mota-Engil will now have construct the 107km of highway from Tuxpan to Ozuluama, and then maintain and operate it for the next 30 years. The Tuxpan-Tampico highway links two of Mexico's busiest Gulf coast ports and will be the
October 2, 2014 Read time: 1 min
In Mexico a consortium headed by Moto-Engil has won the contract to build and operate the 107km-long Tuxpan-Tampico highway. According to Business News Americas, the winning bid that included a works cost of US$260 million, a subsidy of $95 million and venture capital of $73 million. Mota-Engil will now have construct the 107km of highway from Tuxpan to Ozuluama, and then maintain and operate it for the next 30 years. The Tuxpan-Tampico highway links two of Mexico's busiest Gulf coast ports and will be the first project in the country to be developed under the public-private partnership (PPP) law's unsolicited proposal provision.

Other bidders included Coconal, in association with Operadora de Autopistas, and Acciona Infraestructuras, in consortium with Constructora y Edificadora Gia+A and HI Cuadrada Tuxpan.

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