Carlos Slim consortium wins US $8 billion Maya Train contract
Source:Infobae
From:Taiwan Trade Center Mexico
Update Time:2020/06/10
A consortium controlled by billionaire businessman Carlos Slim has secured the second contract awarded by Mexico´s government for the construction of the US$8 billion Maya Train railroad project in Mexico’s southeast.
The National Tourism Promotion Fund (Fonatur), which is managing the project, announced that Slim’s company Cicsa and Spanish construction firm FCC – of which the Mexican magnate is the largest shareholder – were successful with their bid to build the 222-kilometer section of the railroad between Escárcega and Calkiní in Campeche.
Fonatur said that Cisca and FCC will begin construction on May 12 pending approval from the Health Ministry.
The awarding of the contract to the Slim-led consortium came a week after Fonatur announced that a consortium led by Portugal’s Mota-Engil and the majority state-owned China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) had won the contract to build the first section of track between Palenque, Chiapas, and Escárcega.
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