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| Spain’s FCC wins contract to build Panama metro  Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC), the Spain-based environmental services and infrastructure group, has been awarded the contract to build Line 1 of Panama City's metro, adding to FCC's global track record of railway infrastructure projects which include Algeria, India and Singapore. The announcement was made by Roberto Roy, Head of the Panama Metro Secretariat at an event attended by Ricardo Martinelli, President of the Republic of Panama.FCC, in a consortium with Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, with trainsets from Alstom, won the contract over an Italian-led consortium: Impregilo, Ghella and Astaldi, with trainsets from AnsaldoBreda. The contract for Line 1 was awarded on 27 October to the consortium led by FCC, which valued the project at $1.45 billion. Panama's metro will be 14 kilometres long and include 11 stations, some of which will be above ground. Work is scheduled on begin in January 2011. write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Construction News :: home page |