📋 Tender Overview
The Agency for the Promotion of Private Investment (PROINVERSIÓN) held several socialization meetings with municipal authorities, representatives of civil society and local interest groups in the city of Marcona (Ica) in the town of Marcona (Ica) with the aim of informing and collecting consultations on the development of the Public-Private Partnership project "New Port Terminal of San Juan de Marcona". which includes a benchmark investment of US$ 405 million dollars.
These meetings were led by the director of Port Projects of PROINVERSIÓN, Ernesto Guevara and his team of specialists, who explained the details of the project and answered the queries of the attendees, among whom were the district mayor, representatives of the Port Captaincy, the Chamber of Commerce, the hotel guild, restaurants, merchants, artisanal fishermen, and local interest groups from the Marcona district.
The director of the project, Ernesto Guevara, emphasized that this new port project, whose infrastructure will be for public use, will seek to boost foreign trade in the south of the country, generating a favorable impact on the production of goods and services; as well as in the generation of employment for the benefit of the inhabitants of the area of influence.
He reiterated that for PROINVERSIÓN it is important to socialize the project with the authorities and the community. For this reason, he pointed out, this process has begun with two informative workshops, "We have basically exposed the scope and benefits of the "New Port Terminal of San Juan de Marcona" project, as well as the contractual framework, in order to highlight the differences and benefits that PPPs have compared to other investment modalities," said the director of the project. Ernesto Guevara.
"We have managed to get the audience to assimilate this idea, this port terminal will be an infrastructure for public use framed in the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) modality, which as such has a concession contract that contemplates all the duties and obligations, as well as the corresponding sanctions in case of non-compliance by the concessionaire," he said.
The head of the office of the National Port Authority in Marcona (APN), Luis Barragán, indicated that, as a specialized technical agency, they will develop and promote the port project in conjunction with PROINVERSIÓN. "We believe that it is a good starting point to convene all civil society and State institutions to report on the benefits of the port project that develops different technical aspects and, within them, there are the socio-environmental aspects and contractual commitments," he said.
For his part, the president of the Marcona Chamber of Commerce, Jorge Luis Falconi, welcomed the development of these socialization meetings, pointing out that the information offered by PROINVERSIÓN specialists has been very useful to them, by establishing a different perspective from the one they initially knew about the port project of San de Juan de Marcona.
"For us it is gratifying to hear, first of all, that there is a State present, with the intervention of several entities that participate in the development of all the phases of this port project, and that they managed to establish a contract that allows the concessionaire company to comply with various obligations acquired. We, as an organization that oversees the commercial growth of the entire district, are eager to be able to collaborate and sustain all the logistical and human resources material that this project requires and entails," he added.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
This self-financed private initiative (IPA), with a reference investment of US$ 405 million, will be executed through the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) modality, with a concession term of 30 years. Its award is scheduled for the first quarter of the year, and includes the design, financing, construction, operation and maintenance of a new port terminal for public use, specialized in providing storage and shipping services for iron and copper concentrates, as well as mining production inputs. The scope of influence of this project includes Ica, Apurimac and Arequipa.
