The President, together with the Peruvian President, Dina Boluarte and Alexis Catalino Carranza, executive director of Provias Nacional
A consortium of Spanish engineering firms will design the Definitive Engineering Study (EDI) of Peru's first mountain motorway for an amount of 75 million dollars and 18 months of execution. With an overall investment budget of 6.2 billion dollars, the New Central Highway will benefit more than 15 million citizens.
The engineering and consultancy firm of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Ineco, is leading the consortium formed by IDOM, Geoconsult, Carlos Fernández Casado, Hualca Ingenieros and Arenas y Asociados, who have joined forces and specialities to develop this key megaproject for the Peruvian government.
The president of Ineco, Sergio Vázquez Torrón, together with representatives of the rest of the companies in the consortium, signed this important contract with Provias Nacional of the Peruvian Ministry of Transport and Communications.
This announcement was made in an activity attended by the President of the Republic of Peru, Dina Boluarte; the Minister of Transport and Communications, Raúl Pérez-Reyes Espejo; and the director of PMO Vías, Silmara de Assis, a client of the consortium.
The largest Andean road project
The Daniel Alcides Carrión highway, also known as the "New Central Highway", will connect Metropolitan Lima with the Central Amazonian Macro-Region made up of six regions: Huánuco, Pasco, Junín, Junín, Ucayali, Huancavelica and Lima, thus becoming the second most important highway in the country, after the Pan-American Highway, thanks to its 185 kilometres, starting at sea level and reaching heights of 4,700m. The infrastructure will have two lanes in each direction, more than 35 kilometres of tunnels and 15 kilometres of bridges and viaducts to overcome its complicated orography.
It is estimated that the more than 12,000 vehicles expected to circulate daily will be able to travel from the Ate District in Lima to La Oroya in less than two and a half to three and a half hours, depending on their type, which will allow the Peruvian economy to grow and facilitate exports of agricultural, mining and handicraft products, among other sectors,
handicrafts, among other sectors of the central macro-region with the capital and, in particular, with the port of El Callao and Jorge Chávez airport.
The infrastructure will also favour ecological and archaeological tourism by applying innovative measures for climate change adaptation, low-carbon construction, water management and renewable energy production.
Peru and Ineco: a success story
Ineco, in addition to assuming the leadership of the works, will be responsible for drafting the projects for seven of the thirteen sections into which the work is divided. To this end, a key part of the team will be implemented locally to simplify the coordination of the work with the client. The company's technical team will be made up of specialists in layout, drainage, tunnels (installations and special projects teams), building, environment, signalling, road safety, operation and maintenance, and metrics.
Ineco has had a branch office in Peru since 2014 and has become a key factor in the development of infrastructure in the Andean country with projects as important as the expansion of Jorge Chávez airport in Lima, Chiclayo and Trujillo. It has also carried out a study to commercially link the Atlantic and Pacific ports through a safe and sustainable international mass transit railway system that reduces operating costs and improves logistics operations between Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.
