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APM Terminals and ICA sign the contract for the realization of according to container the terminal of Lázaro Cárdenas
The first phase of the project will be completed in 2015
August 1, 2012
The consortium participated with 95% from APM Terminals, terminalista society of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk, and with 5% by ICA Infraestructura (ICAi), branch of Empresas ICA, the main ingegneristico group of Mexico, has undersigned the contract for the planning, financing, construction, management and maintenance of TEC II, new second the container terminal of the mexican port of Lázaro Cárdenas ( on 27 December 2011). The contract has a duration 30-year-old and is assigned through a procedure of lead international contest from the Harbour Administración Integral de Lázaro Cárdenas (APILAC).
The project will be realized in three phases and the consortium has announced a total investment of beyond 900 million dollars. One previews that the first phase will be completed in 2015 with an investment of about 300 million dollars.
Group ICA will realize with the ICA Civil Construction branch all the civil works of the first phase that include the dredging of the channel, the construction of two total docks for 650 linear meters and a terminalistica area of 43 hectares. With the completion of second and the third phase the terminal will cover an area of 102 hectares, will have four docks for total 1,485 linear meters with depth of the -16,5 backdrop meters.
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