Chile Approves $4.45 Billion ‘Outer Port’ Expansion at San Antonio
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The project Port Exterior of the Port Company of San Antonio received this morning its environmental approval unanimously by the Environmental Assessment Commission (Coeva) of Valparaíso.The project -which has been called by the company as the largest foreign trade infrastructure of the 21st century in Chile- reaches an investment of approximately US$ 4,450 million and will increase the capacity of the port in order to handle vessels of greater …
It provides an investment of $4.450 million to triple container movement capacity. It promises to employ 1,500 people during construction and quadruple contributions to the local municipality.
Senator Andrés Longton, member of the Senate's Environment Commission, valued the environmental approval of the Puerto Exterior project of San Antonio, an initiative that contemplates an investment of US$4.450 million and that, after six years of processing in the Environmental Assessment Service (SEA), received green light from the Environmental Assessment Commission of the Valparaiso Region. “A great news for the Valparaiso region. After many …
In its environmental processing, the owner of the project had to respond to about 7,200 demands of public agencies and citizen observations. The initiative contemplates a total investment of US$ 4.450 million. Of that amount, the State will contribute US$ 1.950 million to build a breakwater, in addition to areas of support and environmental measures. According to government sources, the biministro de Obras Públicas y Transportes, Louis de Grange…
The possible environmental approval of the megaport project would facilitate access to financing one of the most ambitious works in the Valparaiso region and the country.
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