In Casanare transportation companies have formed a group of committees to better organize the industry, in Huila accidents and congestion due to tankers have declined while road and bridge repairs took place in Casanare, Boyacá and Norte de Santander.
An agreement that required the intervention of the Labor Ministry to negotiate between the operator of the new port project, Impala, and local workers and communities has lifted a 30-day strike which has held up progress on the construction of the new facilities.
Government promises to reroute crude from the south through pipelines to Ecuador have gone unfulfilled, while Casanare is abuzz with both cooperative work between authorities and the industry, but also criticism. These and other stories in our routine review of road and transportation related stories.
Problems surrounding an ethanol plant that is to be built by Ecopetrol’s (NYSE:EC) biofuels unit Bioenergy have made their way to the Colombian Senate, and Senate Martiza Martínez wants ECP president Javier Gutiérrez and Bioenergy manager Aleck Santamaría de la Cruz to explain the status of the plant.
The future river port on the banks of the Magdalena River in Barrancabermeja being built by port and logistics firm Impala is now 40% finished, and company management expects to meet their deadlines and have started early operations before the end of 2014.
President Juan Manuel Santos signed the contract to recover navigability on the Magdalena River, which promises to offer a new alternative transport route for hydrocarbons. The ambitious project will see work start in June 2015, and has a price tag of US$600M.
As part of its plan expand the gas transportation infrastructure available in Colombia, gas distributor TGI, recently acquired by the Energia de Bogota Group, will expand the capacity of its Cusiana-Vasconia pipeline by 20 million cubic feet.
The Colombian Petroleum Association’s new president Francisco José Lloreda called on the government to improve its ability to protect the nation’s pipelines, regardless of any peace advances with the guerrilla.
After a delay of at least a year for the sale of the 57.6% share that the government has in electrical energy generator Isagén, the idea of floating more of its control of Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) on the public market to pay for infrastructure investments has resurfaced.
From public safety campaigns to debates on who will foot the bill of heavy vehicular traffic, Casanare was home to a number of road related issues and reports, which we detail in our latest summary of road related articles.
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