The Peruvian government has announced that the US$182 million construction of a road to link Tacna (Peru) with La Paz (Bolivia), via Collpa, will begin in 2015. This new road will benefit more than 268,000 people living in the south of Peru.
May 13, 2014
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The Peruvian government has announced that the US$182 million construction of a road to link Tacna (Peru) with La Paz (Bolivia), via Collpa, will begin in 2015. This new road will benefit more than 268,000 people living in the south of Peru.
Travelling in one of the world's most diverse regions is not always easy, but spectacular engineering feats will make life easier as Patrick Smith reports. Five years ago a report from the World Bank noted that infrastructure in most of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) had improved over the previous ten years.
The Peruvian Ministry of Transport and Communication has confirmed that by July nearly 20,000km of the Red Vial Nacional national highway network will be paved.
The figure means nearly 87% of roads in Peru will be paved. In 2011, around 12,500km of the network was paved, according to a report by America Economia.
The ministry also highlighted that regions such as Amazonas and Ayacucho, will have doubled the number of paved kilometres since 2011. Amazonas will rise from 36% in 2011 to 72% this year, wh
The Algerian Council of Ministers has approved two contracts for stretches of road on the Hauts Plateaux motorway.
No details of the contractors were given for the work that is to link Lambidiri to Draa Lahmar via Ouled Fadhel. Construction is expected to take 18 months.
Last March, World Highways reported that work on the 1,000km Hauts-Plateaux motorway project was to begin that month. Construction cost for motorway’s 10 sections was estimated to be around US$8.94 billion, according to Algerian Minis
