Bolivian Government to invest US$129.3mn in Moxos-Trinidad road

A project to improve Bolivia’s existing 77.8km road between San Ignacio de Moxos and Trinidad will cost US$129.3 million, the government has announced. The project includes a 1.7km bridge over Mamore river. The first areas of work will involve the road between San Ignacio de Moxos and Puerto Ganadero. This section will cost US$84 million and will be improved by ABC. Euroestudios-CPS Belmonte has signed a US$2.2 million contract with ABC for studies on the future Mamore river bridge. The cost of the bridge h
October 31, 2013 Read time: 2 mins
A project to improve Bolivia’s existing 77.8km road between San Ignacio de Moxos and Trinidad will cost US$129.3 million, the government has announced. The project includes a 1.7km bridge over Mamore river. The first areas of work will involve the road between San Ignacio de Moxos and Puerto Ganadero. This section will cost US$84 million and will be improved by ABC. Euroestudios-CPS Belmonte has signed a US$2.2 million contract with ABC for studies on the future Mamore river bridge. The cost of the bridge has been estimated at around $43 million.

Elsewhere in Bolivia, the government of La Paz has signed a contract with Bolivian-Colombian consortium Consorcio Puente Gemelo for the construction of the Puente Gemelo de las Americas bridge. Construction works will begin on 18 November 2013 and are due to reach completion on 29 April 2015. The project will be financed with funds from the La Paz council as well as a loan from the Latin 4900 American Development Bank (CAF). The new bridge will be the longest in the city spanning 213m.
Road Structures

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • New Paraguay-Brazil bridge being built
    July 1, 2020
    Construction work is now underway on a new Paraguay-Brazil bridge.
    Read More
  • Project complexity in Bolivia
    April 25, 2012
    Cost increases are being seen on work to the second phase of Bolivia’s Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos road project. The work looks likely to cost an extra US$250 million as the route will have to avoid the TIPNIS national reserve. The Bolivian Government made the decision to reroute the highway following appeals from the country’s indigenous community. However coca farmers are now appealing against this ruling, while farmers in neighbouring Brazil are also requesting guarantees on land use relating to th
    Read More
  • Protestors march on Bolivian road project
    April 10, 2012
    Controversy still surrounds a key road project in Bolivia. Local communities within the TIPNIS nature reserve are once again protesting against the project to build a new road, the ninth such march carried out so far. In all 64 communities in the TIPNIS reserve are being consulted on the construction of the second stretch of the Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos road, which is at the centre of the protests. The road is planned to be built through part of the reserve, although the authorities say the link wi
    Read More
  • Bolivia boosts road building budget
    September 22, 2014
    An investment of nearly US$510 million is being planned in Bolivia for road building works. The country’s state-run road company, Administradora Boliviana de Carreteras (ABC), has plans in hand for a total of 32 road maintenance and construction projects in Santa Cruz department. In all these will stretch for some 5,773km. Of this, $291 million will be spent on 276km of new roads, including the Saavedra-Chane and Circunvalacion Mineros, Hardeman-Colonia Pairi and Rio Uruguaito-Santa Rosa de la Roca-San Igna
    Read More

Highlighted Content