Construction Date Set for Bi-Oceanic Corridor

Chile and Argentina next year will start building the Aconcagua Bi-Oceanic Corridor, a 52-kilometer tunnel linking Los Andes, Chile, and Mendoza, Argentina.

The US$4 billion project is a system of high-tech railroad integration with a high cargo capacity, linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and connecting main cities and the major industrial and trade centers of both South American countries. It is an international development headed by Argentine company Corporation America. Construction is expected to start by December 2012.

“The facility will foster port activity and multiply trans-border communication four-fold, easing traffic at the Los Libertadores passage,” Raul Celis, governor of the region whose capital is 120 kilometers northwest of Santiago, told La Nacion Daily.