Country Overview
IIRSA Hubs: Mercosur-Chile
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
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Uruguay
Currently some 10 IIRSA projects, including trans-border projects, are slated for implementation in Uruguay. Together these projects require an estimated investment of $8.8 billion. All of them fall within the MERCOSUR-Chile integration hub. The majority of projects correspond to the multi-modal transportation sector (with a focus on railways, roads, and bridges).
Despite this relatively small portfolio, Uruguay has been among the most ardent supporters of IIRSA, joining with Brazil in late 2004 to support Peru’s proposal that a Regional Infrastructure Authority be formed, for example. The Vásquez Administration is particularly interested in the rehabilitation of a railway from Montevideo to Rivera (which is part of cluster #2 in the MERCOSUR-Chile hub), in order to facilitate the extraction of timber from the Uruguay-Brazil border area. However, detractors point out that Uruguay does not have contracting companies of the size needed to win bids for the proposed works, and that the amount of additional foreign debt the country will take on by participating in IIRSA is too great in relation to the expected return from the projects like the Montevideo-Rivera railway.
Exportación por envíos postales para PYMES Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Ecuador; Guyana; Paraguay; Peru; Suriname; Uruguay; Venezuela | Cluster ($1M)
Implementación de acuerdo de Roaming en América del Sur Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Ecuador; Guyana; Paraguay; Peru; Suriname; Uruguay; Venezuela | Cluster ($1M)
Ferrocarril Asuncion - Montevideo Paraguay; Uruguay | Cluster ($0M)
Alternativas de conexion entre Argentina y Uruguay Argentina; Uruguay | Cluster 2. Porto Alegre-Buenos Aires ($0M)
Proyecta Ancla: Adecuación del corridor Rio Branco – Montevideo – Colonia – Nueva Palmira: Rutas 1, 11, 8, 17, 18 y 21 (Proyecta Ancla: Adecuación del Corredor Río Branco-Colonia (Rutas 1,11,8,17,18)) Uruguay | Cluster 2. Porto Alegre-Buenos Aires ($163M)
Reacondicionamiento de la Ruta Montevideo-Rivera Uruguay | Cluster 2. Porto Alegre-Buenos Aires ($22M)
Ampliación del Puerto de La Paloma Uruguay | Cluster 2. Porto Alegre-Buenos Aires ($30M)
Central térmica de ciclo combinado San José (Central Termoelétrica de ciclo combinado de San José) Uruguay | Cluster 2. Porto Alegre-Buenos Aires ($170M)
Reacondicionamiento de la ruta Montevideo – Fray Bentos 1, 3, 11, 23, 12, y 2 (Reacondicionamiento Ruta Montevideo-Fray Bentos-Paysandú) Uruguay | Cluster 2. Porto Alegre-Buenos Aires ($16M)
Zone – Puerto de Nueva Palmira (Ampliación del Puerto de Nueva Palmira) Uruguay | Cluster 2. Porto Alegre-Buenos Aires ($10M)
Reacondicionamiento de la Ferrovía entre Salto y Paysandú Uruguay | Cluster 2. Porto Alegre-Buenos Aires ($9M)
Reacondicionamiento de la Ferrovía entre Montevideo y Rivera Uruguay | Cluster 2. Porto Alegre-Buenos Aires ($55M)
Ruta 26: reacondicionamiento del tramo Rio Branco – Paysandú (Reacondicionamiento del Tramo Río Branco-Paysandú (Ruta 26)) Uruguay | Cluster 2. Porto Alegre-Buenos Aires ($8M)
Modernización del puerto de Montevideo (Programa de Modernización de los Puertos de Montevideo) Uruguay | Cluster 3. Valparaiso-Buenos Aires ($85M)
Programa de Infraestructura Vial II (y Portuaria) Uruguay | Cluster 2. Porto Alegre-Buenos Aires ($295M)
Programa de infraestructura vial I Uruguay | Cluster 2. Porto Alegre-Buenos Aires ($137M)
Estudio de sostenibilidad para la iniciativa IIRSA Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Ecuador; Guyana; Paraguay; Peru; Suriname; Uruguay; Venezuela | Cluster ($0M)
Construcción del Puente Internacional Jaguarao-Río Branco Brazil; Uruguay | Cluster 2. Porto Alegre-Buenos Aires ($12M)
Paso de Frontera en el corredor Montevideo-Chuy Brazil; Uruguay | Cluster 2. Porto Alegre-Buenos Aires ($0M)
Eje de la Hidrovía Paraguay-Paraná Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Paraguay; Uruguay | Cluster 3. Venezuela-Colombia III ($500M)
Construcción del Puente Binacional Salto - Concordia Argentina; Uruguay | Cluster 4. Mercedes-Paysandu ($12M)
Puente Buenos Aires - Colonia Argentina; Uruguay | Cluster 2. Porto Alegre-Buenos Aires ($800M)
Iniciativas de interconexión gasífera en Sudamérica Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru; Uruguay; Venezuela | Cluster ($0M)
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