Two road contracts

26 December 2011 - New contracts - Chile

Bitumix, a subsidiary of Eurovia, is working on two projects in the north of the country, the centre of a rapidly expanding mining industry. 1,400 km from Santiago, the company is charged with creating the pavement on 45 km of the Rutas de Antofagasta motorway network, currently under construction. As part of this project, requiring the deployment of 220,000 t of mix, Probisa, also a Eurovia subsidiary, will be supplying 35,000 t of bitumen, shipped from North America to the company's new port terminal at Mejillones, which has been operational since late July 2011.

The second project involves rehabilitating a 25 km-long stretch of the Pan-American Highway in the Quillagua oasis (Atacama Desert), 300 km to the north of Antofagasta.
Worth a total of almost €29m, the works on these two projects began in June and October 2011, respectively. They will be completed in April and June 2012.