📋 Tender Overview
Investment exceeds S/700 millionPhysical work on the Tacna - Boca del Rio double track began at a steady pace, a work carried out by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications through Provias Nacional and the Sama Road Consortium. This project, which has an investment of more than 700 million soles, will transform the lives of more than 350 thousand inhabitants and strengthen regional connectivity.
The general manager of the Regional Government of Tacna, Eng. Jaime Carpio Camacho, representing the regional governor, Luis Torres Robledo, carried out a field verification this Wednesday to supervise the deployment of machinery and personnel.
Carpio Camacho highlighted that, after conversations with the consortium, the vehicular flow towards the coast will not be affected during the summer season. It should be noted that from Boca del Rio to Tacna the second route will be on the left side, so in the summer we will not have problems traveling along the current route, there will be no interference and the Consortium will communicate when there are some interferences or detours, he assured.
The official highlighted the social impact of the work: the reduction of accidents in a critical 47 km stretch (where there are more than 150 symbolic crossings), the savings in travel times for farmers and tourists, and the increase in the value of adjacent properties.
For his part, the field supervisor, Tech. Luis Alberto Alva Velasquez, reported that the work began in the first 20 kilometers of the road, specifically from the entrance to the Boca del Rio town center (km 0+000) to the vicinity of the El Chasqui curve (km 1+200). Currently, the work focuses on platform cutting and scarification, which consists of the preparation and compaction of the land to achieve the subgrade level.
He specified that currently they are working with more than 20 heavy machinery vehicles, such as: 17 dump trucks, two front loaders, a roller, a motor grader, two tractors, two minivans and a guardrail truck. Likewise, the arrival of more machinery is expected between December 26 and 31.
In addition, he reported that initially 51 people are working on the site (45 in the field and 6 in the office), deployed in three teams made up of operators, officers, laborers and dump truck drivers; of which, about twenty are regional workforce. He noted that an alternate route is being executed for the intervened section with the aim of not affecting drivers, mainly during this summer season.
This work, whose first stone was laid on November 26 after 10 years of efforts, represents a historic milestone for the infrastructure of the south of the country.
