Bolivia accelerates the times in order to define the project of the Bi-oceanic Railway Corridor



Yesterday and today to La paz a technical reunion is carried out on the project "Railway Corridor Bi-oceanic Headquarters" in order to realize a railway line of 3.755 kilometers that leaving from the port of Brazilian Santos and crossing 1,521 kilometers in the territory, 1,894 kilometers in Bolivia and 340 kilometers in Peru arrives to the port of Ilo joining so the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and setting as infrastructure for the transport of the goods alternative to the channel of Panama hat.

The project is promoted with energy from the government of Bolivia in order to assure to the nation a stable outlet to the sea and also which alternative to the project of an analogous transoceanica railway line that connects the Atlantic with the Pacific crossing Brazil and Peru, but not the Bolivia whose border to north would come solo lambito from the railway line, project for which China has manifested interest. This line alternative, whose traced still exactly it is not defined, would have a length comprised between 4.800 and 5.300 kilometers.

The Bolivian government, besides rimarcare the minor length of its Railway Corredor Bioceánico Central (CFBC) regarding the Corredor Norte Transcontinental (CNT) that he has aroused the interest of China, has evidenced moreover that own project previews the construction of little drawn new railway, while for the CNT it would be necessary to spread new railroads on beyond the half of the entire tracing, and that in order to realize the CFBC an investment of seven billions of dollars would be necessary, while line CNT would involve an expense of 20 billion dollars.

It is emphasized moreover that the new railway line through Bolivia would allow to diminish the transit time of the goods from an oceanic side to the other of the continent American. According to the esteem of the Bolivian government, for example, through the new railway corridor the cargos directed to the port of Santos and left from the Chinese ports could reach the Brazilian harbour port of call in 42 days regarding the 67 days being necessary with the transit of the ships through the channel of Panama hat and to the 58 days necessary to the ships in order to circumnavigate to south the continent from the start passing Horn.

To the reunion in course to La paz delegations of Bolivia participate, of Peru, of Brazil and Paraguay, financial instituted representatives of the Inter-American Bench de Desarrollo (BID) and CAF Bench de Desarrollo de Latin América and French entrepreneurs interested to participate to the project. Yesterday it is decided that beginning from next 21 April the technical table will meet every month in order to in detail define the project from the technical point of view, financial, legal and normative.

It is previewed that today, to the term of the reunion to which delegations of Germany and Switzerland will participate also, a memorandum of understanding with Germany comes sign in order to finance the feasibility study in order to realize the railway line, that it will be signed by the viceministro German of the transports and digital Infrastructures, Rainer Bomba, and an agreement with Brazil in order to formalize its income in the project.