📋 Tender Overview
Infrastructure are between the Ricardo Palma and La Oroya sectionThe president of the Supervisory Agency for Investment in Public Use Transport Infrastructure (Ositran), Veronica Zambrano, reported that the regulatory body as part of her supervisor work has been communicating to the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) that on the central highway about 21 bridges and pontoons are in a critical situation, the same ones that were evaluated at the time by the specialists of said entity.
Among the bridges evaluated by the MTC, and also by the Dealer Deviandes and that need to be replaced are: Ricardo Palma, Habich, Llican, Huayllautpe, Tamboraque I, II and II and Infiernillo.
Also, the bridges Anchi I and II, Chicla II, Bellavista I and II, Tabachaca, Chinchan, Ponton, Ponton Siberia and Huayre.
The official said that the Ositran through reports and offices has been warning since 2019 on the critical situation of the bridges and pontoons, however, they have not received the necessary attention, despite having evaluations of specialists who support the urgency of the interventions.
He pointed out that the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MTC) of bridges that would have problems in their structures is permanently informed to avoid similar tragedies such as that occurred more than two weeks after the collapse of the Chancay bridge.
He argued that, in accordance with the provisions of the concession contract, the entity responsible for intervening the structures of these bridges would be that of the MTC and not the concessionaire.
Ositran will continue the permanent supervision of the concessionaires, so that the standards and the requirements established in the concession contracts are continued.
