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Mota Engil to upgrade Paraguay’s Transchaco

Portuguese engineering and infrastrucure firm Mota-Engil and the Paraguayan company Concret Mix were the soul bidders for a turn-key contract to repair and upgrade Paraguay’s Route 9 Transchaco. The national highway project, costing nearly US$500 million covers around 530km. The Transchaco starts in Asunción – Paraguay’s capital and largest city - and ends at the border with Bolivia, traversing 835km. Work includes widening by a metre the 6m-wide highway that crosses the semi-arid Paraguayan Chaco, on
June 15, 2016 Read time: 1 min
Portuguese engineering and infrastrucure firm Mota-Engil and the Paraguayan company Concret Mix were the soul bidders for a turn-key contract to repair and upgrade Paraguay’s Route 9 Transchaco.

The national highway project, costing nearly US$500 million covers around 530km. The Transchaco starts in Asunción – Paraguay’s capital and largest city - and ends at the border with Bolivia, traversing 835km.

Work includes widening by a metre the 6m-wide highway that crosses the semi-arid Paraguayan Chaco, one of South America’s most thinly populated regions.

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