📋 Tender Overview
This Thursday, October 30, 2025, shortly before dawn, a group of inspectors from the Superintendency of Land Transportation of People, Cargo and Goods (SUTRAN), an entity attached to the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MTC) deployed a lightning operation in the district of Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero (Arequipa). It was three in the morning when the operational personnel of the Deconcentrated Unit met in front of the Great South Terminal El Altiplano, located on Andres A. Caceres Avenue. At that time, the movement inside the terminal was beginning to arouse suspicion.
The objective of the operation was to verify compliance with the regulations regarding land transportation and the authorization of the terminals complementary infrastructure. The team of inspectors was accompanied by more than 75 police officers from various units: USE, Green Squadron, GIR and UTSEVI.
Ten accredited inspectors toured the terminal facilities, reviewing documentation, licenses and the conditions of the transport vehicles. In a matter of minutes, the first irregularities were confirmed: an infraction related to the terminal infrastructure (code T3) and another linked to informal transport services (code F1).
The complementary infrastructure of the Gran Terminal del Sur El Altiplano was temporarily closed. The decision also involved the withdrawal of an informal vehicle license plate. At dawn, the closing signs on the facade of the terminal revealed the result: a new blow to informality in national land transportation.
The action was part of the operational plan for monitoring enabled complementary infrastructure that SUTRAN executes at the national level, and which seeks to guarantee the safety of passengers and the legality of the services.
