Colombia: financial closure achieved for 13 4G road projects

Colombia's Minister of Transport, Jorge Eduardo Rojas, announced that 13 projects within the framework of 4G – Fourth Generation - road development have reached financial closure.
September 6, 2016 Read time: 1 min

Colombia's Minister of Transport, Jorge Eduardo Rojas, announced that 13 projects within the framework of 4G – Fourth Generation - road development have reached financial closure.

With 11 projects included in the first wave of the scheme, only one proposal lacks a financial closure, according to a report in El Pais newspaper.

Rojas confirmed that in the second wave, nine road projects have been awarded and are expected to achieve their financial closure before the end of the year.

According to Rojas, 4G will add 7,000km of roads that will include 1,300km of dual carriageways, 1,451 tunnels and 21,300 bridges.

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