パナマ運河拡張工事の追加工事資金対立問題は、パナマ運河当局と運河企業合同体との間で合意が成立し2015年12月には運河拡張工事を完了させる予定に
Acuerdo para resolver la crisis del Canal y acabar la obra antes de 2016
El pacto prevé que la autoridad y las empresas aporten 73 millones cada una
La aseguradora Zurich convertirá la fianza de 290 millones en un préstamo
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José Meléndez San José (Costa Rica) 28 FEB 2014 - 06:44 CET
Agreement to resolve the crisis Canal and finish the work by 2016
The agreement provides that the authority and businesses provide 73 million each
The insurer Zurich become bail of 290 million in a loan
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José Meléndez San José (Costa Rica) 28 FEB 2014 - 06:44 CET
State Panama Canal Authority (ACP ) and construction companies of the conglomerate Grupo Unidos por el Canal ( GUPC ) announced on Thursday evening that they have reached an agreement to resolve the crisis that came to halt for 15 days the project to expand the waterway. The pact provides a thorough financial architecture to achieve and continue the work that the project ends in December 2015. In essence , the agreement is because the parties inject 100 million each, while the bond insurer Zurich become 400 million in loans.
From Spain , Sacyr has confirmed early on Friday to the CNMV that it had reached a " final conceptual agreement to resolve the financial problems affecting the construction project of the third set of locks ." Immediately afterwards , the group states that it "expects the speedy conclusion of the agreement and financing in order to execute the work efficiently and complete the project of the Third Set of Locks of the Panama Canal ."
Jorge Quijano, ACP Administrator , in any case stated that "the agreement is under review and signature. However, our commitment to transparency with Panama , we are informed as soon as it happened. " It is a " conceptual subject to documentation, review and final signature by the parties ' agreement, said. " The third set of locks will be completed within the terms of the contract ( which will be in Panama in December of this year) , as demand from day one ," he reiterated .
GUPC claims , consisting of the Spanish Sacyr Vallehermoso, Italy's Impregilo , Belgium's Jan de Nul and Panamanian Urban Construction , " must remain cared for according to the contractual resolution mechanisms . The contract price is maintained, ie it is not modified by this agreement, " he said. These requests are the essential part of the conflict , as the lawsuit broke on 1 January when the consortium warned that January 20 would suspend the work if the Authority refused to pay 1,600 million dollars (about 1,160 million euros) for unexpected additional costs . The ACP has reaffirmed that claims must follow a set procedure in the contract that the parties initialed in 2009 and defining, as a last step, a Florida arbitration to settle differences .
Canal Authority rejected the ultimatum and continued to negotiate with GUPC , which extended the deadline to February 4. The talks ended without agreement , and the next day, the Group suspended the expansion , which began in 2007 with a budget of $ 5,250 million ( 3,800 million euros). Work resumed on Thursday, 20 February, a preliminary solution to arise between the two parties .
The state company said Thursday that the consortium " inject " 100 million dollars ( 73 million euros) and the Authority " advance " a similar amount , which " will achieve the normal rhythm of work " in March 2014. Furthermore, " the advanced payment moratorium may be extended " until 2018 . Advances Authority totaling $ 748 million ( 545 million euros) in advance to construction .
Quijano had said that the key agreement was that the company Zürich America, which is the insurer of enlargement by GUPC , accept inject $ 400 million , which are as performance bond , to become the Group borrowed .
Under the agreement announced Thursday , " performance bond " of $ 400 million ( 290 million euros) " can only be released by (the insurer) Zürich , for obtaining a financing to complete the work." One of the essential elements of the agreement is that the two sides agreed that 12 gates that are in Italy, " must be in Panama in December 2014 ." The gates are vital in the locks .
In 2009, the construction consortium won the bid for the locks to provide 3.118 million dollars (about 2,270 million) and signed a contract that year and began work with the promise of concluding in October 2014 , but delays arose in 2012 and the goal was passed June 2015. In the agreement Thursday , the Panama Canal Authority confirmed that " the contract price is maintained, ie it is not modified by this agreement."
The new completion date is December 2015 and , according to Quijano and companies , between 65 % and 70 % of the work is completed. The locks are a major part of the expansion , approved by referendum in 2006 Panamanians . The track opened in 1914 by the United States , which began its construction in 1904 , has operated normally despite the conflict in parallel lands.
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