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ACP and GUPC has reached preliminary agreements for the prosecuzione of the intense activities of widening of the channel of Panama hat
has announced It the administrator of the Autoridad of the Canal de Panama City, Jorge Luis Quijano
February 12, 2014
the Autoridad of the Canal de Panama City (the ACP) and the consortium Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC) has reached preliminary agreements for the prosecuzione of the intense activities of widening of the channel of Panama hat, activity that some days before the consortium has suspended in attended that additional burdens for approximately 1,6 billion dollars(6 of February 2014 are recognized it). It has announced today the administrator of the ACP, Jorge Luis Quijano, in occasion of the reunion with the committee directive of the Panamanian Câmara de Comercio, Industrias y Agriculture (CCIAP) indetta specifically in order to discuss about the controversy between the Authority of the Channel of Panama hat and consortium GUPC.
In the margin of the reunion with the summits of the CCIAP, Chamber of Commerce who has put the ACP decision to oppose himself firmly to the demand for the consortium and has defended the line of the Autoridad of the Canal de Panama City to adhere closely to the contractual terms that - it has emphasized the CCIAP - "armor the work", Quijano has explained to have by telephone reached agreements on several issues that are on the table of the negotiations with the representatives of the Sacyr Vallehermoso Spanish, the Italian Salt Impregilo and from the Belgian Jan De Nul, than with the Panamanian Constructora Urbana (CUSA) constitutes consortium GUPC. Quijano has specified that issues still remain to resolve, between which the participation of the insurance agency Zurich North America, guarantor of the plan of construction of the third closed series of the Panamanian channel, and that the parts are working in this direction.
Quijano moreover has confirmed that an alternative to the prosecuzione of the plan without the resource at work of consortium GUPC would mean to incur in remarkable delays in the completion of the intense activities, but has emphasized the necessity that a solution is reached in little days in order to resume the activities as soon as possible.
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