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Recognized part of the declared additional costs from consortium GUPC for the widening of the channel of Panama hat
also a delay of 176 days of the duration of the intense activities
January 2, 2015
Established
the organ of arbitrateed Junta de Resolución de Conflictos (JRC), with judgment of second degree, has established that to the consortium Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC KNOWS), that it is charged to execute the works of widening of the channel of Panama hat, is recognized additional costs in the development of the intense activities for the realization of the third closed series of for approximately 233 million dollars on approximately 463 million dollars demanded from the consortium(of 6 February 2014). The organ has moreover established a delay of the duration of the contract of 176 which claimed days on the 256 from the consortium, that it is constituted by the Sacyr Vallehermoso Spanish, from the Italian Salt Impregilo, the Belgian Jan De Nul and from the Panamanian Constructora Urbana, KNOWS (CUSA).
the Autoridad of the Canal de Panama City (the ACP) has explained that such decision draws the bases on the composition of the mixture of concrete and concrete used for the construction of the floodgates of the locks. The Authority of the Panamanian channel, remembering that sussiste the possibility that one of the parts, unsatisfied of the sentence, can carry the case in front of an arbitrateed court of on the base of the norms of the International Chamber of Commerce, has hour not specified if the compirà ACP this step. However the ACP administrator has specified that this sentence necessarily does not represent the end of the event: "even if in this degree of judgment it has been a partial acknowledgment of the theses of both the parts - Jorge Luis Quijano has declared - we will make a deepened technical and legal analysis of this decision before to complete a confacente step to the interests of the Channel".
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