パナマ運河拡張工事が、運河企業合同体;GUPC(Grupo Unidos por el Canal)による契約違反の50%増加の追加工事資金要求を、パナマ運河庁;ACP(la Autoridad del Canal de Panama)が拒否し、工事が中止されて居たが、運河庁が2013年12月の36'800'000$(3680万$)の工事代金を払うことの暫定合意で、スペイン企業のSacyr会社を頭とする企業合同体は工事を再開。
CRISIS EN PANAMÁ
Sacyr retoma las obras del Canal
El grupo liderado por la constructora española y las autoridades panameñas tratarán de resolver el conflicto definitivamente antes del sábado por la tarde
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In English: Panama Canal work to restart Thursday following preliminary agreement
José Meléndez San José (Costa Rica) 20 FEB 2014 - 17:05 CET
CRISIS IN PANAMA
Sacyr resumed work on the Canal
The group led by Spanish construction and Panamanian authorities seek to resolve the dispute definitively before Saturday afternoon
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In Inglés: Panama Canal work to restart Thursday Following preliminary agreement
José Meléndez San José (Costa Rica) 20 FEB 2014 - 17:05 CET
The workers have returned Thursday to the Panama Canal . Hundreds of them have returned to their jobs to resume redevelopment of the Canal, after being paralyzed for 15 days. The winning consortium of works, led by Spanish construction firm Sacyr, and the Panama Canal Authority (ACP ) arrived last Wednesday to a preliminary agreement to resume work halted since last February 5.
The Grupo Unidos por el Canal ( GUPC ) and meet one of the points of the preliminary agreement reached on Tuesday . Now it's a move to the ACP as an informative note from him . "As soon as jobs are restarted , send " the Group with a total of 36.8 million dollars ( 26.8 million euros) "under work charged in December with the goal of workers GUPC charge pending his fortnight , and also to cope with other obligations to suppliers. " The parties are now committed to continue negotiations on key issues to enable the financing and payments to subcontractors and workers from the construction added .
" A large group of workers , not full, has begun to work on Thursday . There is a commitment from the group to pay wages and the Authority shall give a payout , "said Norberto Valencia, spokesman of the Union of Workers in the Construction and Related . Another union leader , Hector Hurtado , said: "We are waiting for the payment of all wages ." Hurtado was pleased by the news of the resumption of the works.
The Canal Authority will pay 26.8 million euros for the consortium resume work
After 44 days of negotiations and disagreements for increased costs in the redevelopment of the Canal, the ACP and GUPC , composed of Sacyr, Italy's Impregilo , Belgium's Jan de Nul and Panama , Construction Urbana, reached a preliminary agreement . Now both sides have until Saturday afternoon to close the outstanding fringes.
"The decisions of the parties were given during telephone conversations ," the statement continued . "However, there are still some issues on which agreement has not been achieved ," he warns . Among the details are definitely agree " delivery dates of the gates , implementation schedule , schedule of repayment moratorium and other key aspects of the project ," says the statement from the ACP .
The GUPC own in a separate statement also says that " the consortium on Thursday reactivated work on the third set of locks ." " The revival of the work is done by following a procedure that will allow the work is in full swing in the shortest time possible. Parallel , GUPC maintains open communication with the ACP in order to sign the memorandum in the coming days " adds the text sent .
The administrator of the ACP , Jorge Quijano, revealed last week that the key arrangement is that the insurer accepts Zürich inject $ 400 million , which are as performance bond. This money would become a loan GUPC . The other key would be to grant a moratorium for repayment Group for $ 748 million ( 545 million euros) to the Authority anticipated .
After months of disputes , financial disagreement broke out on January 1 , when the construction consortium announced that January 20 would suspend the work if the Canal Authority refused to pay 1,600 million ( 1,200 million) which are lacking its cash flows for additional unforeseen costs in the construction of the locks to expand the path . The ACP rejected the ultimatum . The first deadline passed without agreement, but negotiations continued with a new limit : 31 January. The second ultimatum again postponed . This time until 4 February. Nor was there agreement and the expansion work was stopped the next day.
" There are some issues on which agreement has not been achieved ," says the Authority
After winning the bid in 2009 to build the locks of the expansion of the waterway, with an offer of 3,118 million dollars ( 2.267 million euros), and sign a contract that year to start work , the consortium committed to conclude in October 2014 . But in 2012 came the first delays and lengthened the period to June 2015.
The delay will make Panama can not offer and sell the services of new locks to vessels larger than can currently transit the route , opened in 1914 by the United States , which began its construction in 1904. The track and its surrounding areas , which were initially assumed to control in perpetuity of Washington, were given to the full sovereignty of Panama on December 31, 1999 . Despite the crisis , the old locks step centenary have continued to operate normally.
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