Minhacienda gives way to the La Dorada – Chiriguaná railway corridor project

The National Agency of Infrastructure (ANI) will open the public tender in the second half of 2024 to award the PPP (Public-Private Alliance) that will be responsible for the construction and maintenance of the La Dorada – Chiriguaná railway corridor.

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This, after the General Directorate of Public Credit and National Treasury of the Ministry of Finance issued last Friday, May 24, the approval of the valuation of contingent obligations and the no objection to the financial conditions of the railway project.

The decision was taken after a joint work between the ANI and the Public Credit Directorate to close a financial model, seeking the optimization of public resources and promoting the participation of the private sector in the bidding process, ANI reported.

“This is an important step to obtain the financial resources for the project and the next opening of the tender, which will allow us to continue meeting the goal of consolidating the country’s railway reactivation”the entity reported.

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Jonathan Bernal, Vice President of Structuring of the ANI, explained that “The National Fiscal Policy Council – Confis secured the quota, that is, the budgetary space for the La Dorada – Chiriguaná corridor to become a reality.”

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According to the official, “Now the project goes to approval by Conpes, to later publish, in the month of June, what will be the first railway APP after Law 1508 of 2012, which will have an investment of more than $3 billion and which consolidates the railway reactivation of the country in that structuring axis that Colombia has”.

with this project A 526-kilometer railway corridor will be achieved through a ten-year concession, which will benefit the inhabitants of 25 municipalities in five departments, through which the train that will connect the center of the country with the ports of the Colombian Caribbean will travel.

Through this railway corridor, which was reactivated by the ANI in 2022, Last year, more than 150 thousand tons of cargo were transported from the center of the country to ports in the Caribbean.

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At the moment, The ANI has three active railway corridors: Bogotá – Belencito, La Dorada-Chiriguaná and Chiriguaná-Santa Marta, which add up to 800 kilometers of railway line.

For these runners Goods are transported such as cement, coffee, cleaning products, scrap metal, ceramics, food, packaging, chemical inputs, finished plastic products and mass consumption. such as toilet paper, avocado, soda, and corn, among many others.

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In these corridors More than 2,000 direct and indirect jobs have been generated in the departments of Magdalena, Cesar, Bolívar, Caldas, Antioquia, Santander, Tunja, Boyacá and Cundinamarca.

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