📋 Tender Overview
Governor Luis Torres held a meeting with MTC in Lima and committed efforts to advance a double track to Arica, in addition to other projects.The construction of the Tacna - Boca del Rio double track already has a start date; according to projections from the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MTC), it is scheduled for next November 5th. The work will have an investment of S/ 608 million and will be executed in 720 days.
The long-awaited news was announced during a meeting in Lima between the governor of Tacna, Luis Torres Robledo, and the head of the MTC, Aldo Prieto Barrera, who was accompanied by his technical team made up of vice minister Ismael Sutta Soto, the executive director of Provias Nacional, David Fernando Mayorga Lizarraga, among others.
Torres Robledo invited the minister to lay the first stone of this long-awaited 47.52 kilometer work that will benefit more than 300 thousand Tacna residents and visitors, improving the connection between the districts of Tacna, Sama and La Yarada Los Palos.
The governor also thanked Congressman Edgar Tello Montes, who was present at the meeting, for his constant support to achieve the completion of this project that marks a great advance for the road and tourism development of the Tacneno coast.
Prieto Barrera reported that Provias Nacional and the Sama Road Consortium signed the contract to execute the Improvement of the Boca del Rio - Tacna Highway, whose technical file was prepared by the Regional Government of Tacna.
TACNA - COLLPA - LA PAZ
The agenda also included the issue of paving the nearly 50 kilometers of the second section of the Tacna-Collpa-La Paz highway.
Both authorities agreed that while the current arbitration process is resolved, they will be temporarily removed from the MTCs prioritized Works for Taxes (OxI) package.
This will allow the regional government, through an agreement with Provias, to carry out the technical file of the balance of the highway work. Torres Robledo said that, once ready, the study will once again be included among public investment projects as a priority.
TACNA-ARICA DOUBLE CARRIAGE
Likewise, the MTC promised to coordinate with the Peruvian Highway Concessionaire - COVINCA S.A. the possibility of the regional government preparing the technical file for the construction of the dual carriageway of the Tacna - La Concordia - Arica road.
What is sought is to unblock and begin studies so that Gore Tacna assumes powers and is in charge of formulating the profile and technical file of 35 km of the respective highway, explained the regional authority after an intense day of work in Lima.
TACNA - PUNO
Finally, the governor informed Minister Prieto Barrera about the inter-institutional cooperation agreement signed between the regional governments of Tacna and Puno, for the project Improvement of National Route PE-38, Section: Tarata - Puente Challapalca - Capazo - Mazocruz.
The new expanded road will have a double carriageway, 12 meters wide, signage and everything that a two-lane road should have.
