OHL struggle for concessions worldwide by 6,500 million – Economíahoy.mx

Javier Mesones madrid. – 3:37 – 06/23/2016

• The group will seek contracts in the US, Chile, Colombia and Peru

the new phase starts OHL with the relief in the presidential seat is raised on a continuous line model launched just over a year, when the group discovered the strategic plan 2015- 2020. The role of business includes capital grants space and will remain so. Not surprisingly, the next new president of OHL, Juan Miguel Villar-Mir de Fuentes, has led in recent years this division -in which Juan Osuna is a director delegate put so your knowledge of this activity is maximum.

Regardless of concession assets that it has for years in Spain (four) and Mexico (eight), the construction group size also has won in recent years with projects in Chile, Colombia and Peru. The last award, without going any further, recently closed. He has been told elEconomista, OHL, after presenting the best economic offer, has definitely earned the new concession of the Road Highway Nogales-Puchuncaví, in the region of Valparaiso, Chile, amounting to 210 million dollars (187 million euros).

In January, the company also closed the contract for urban road La Molina-Angamos, which represents the most important work of Lima (Peru) at present and that has gestated through model of private initiative, with an estimated 460 million euros investment.

in this firm commitment to the concessions business, the company by the Villar Mir family controlled has launched new tenders for international road projects , rail and ports for an amount that at the end of last year about 6,500 million. It has set a goal in four of the eight priority countries plan: in Colombia, for 2,631,000; in Peru, for 1,926,000; in Chile, for 1,346 million; and in the US, for 650 million dollars (575 million euros).

One of the most advanced projects is the Panamericana Sur highway concession in Ica-Quilca section, south of Peru. If confirmed, it will be his third award in the country. As in the case of La Molina-Angamos, this work responds to private initiative proposed by OHL. It consists of a highway 518 kilometers, with near 350 million investment. In Peru, where yesterday announced the achievement of a contract to build the National Museum of Archaeology 108 million, the company is also negotiating the implementation of avoidance in the town of Chimbote, inside the Red Vial 4 which already manages the Spanish group. This is a contract worth 200 million dollars (187 million euros).

In Chile also has new road projects in perspective, while in Colombia bid for ports, railways and highways, such as Bogotá-Girardot, for which it has submitted the best bid (the budget is about 500 million). In Brazil, for the moment, it analyzes opportunities that return.

The big challenge, however, is to enter the medium term in the United States-Canada-. Thus, OHL is a finalist to build and operate the new Port of Philadelphia, for about 400 million, and fight for a railway project in the city of Los Angeles.

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