http://www.bicusa.org/en/Project.10511.aspx The latest news on the Manta-Manaos Multimodal Corridor from the Bank Information Center 10 http://www.infodev.org/images/infodev.gif http://www.bicusa.org/en/Project.10511.aspx Brazilian chancellor, Antonio Patriota, said in Quito that Brazil will more forward with the project that will conect Manaos in the Brazilian Amazon with Manta on the Pacific Coast of Ecuador, and that will enhance intra-regional commerce, but also between South America and Asia. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12497.aspx Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:30:39 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12497.aspx Ecuadorian authorities will officially inaugurate the first-phase corridor of the bioceanic Manta-Manaos highway. The highway will cost $USD 800 millions to build and has been named Causai Ñanbi (Rita Viva in Quichua). The first load will of around 500 tons of cement, construction pipes, tuna, vegetable oils, fats and soaps. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12492.aspx Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:04:18 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12492.aspx The President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, informed that there is international interest to support the Manta-Manaos project. He said that during the Chancellor's (Ricardo Patiño) trip to the Middle East, there was an evaluation of the posibility of investment on this waterway which connects Ecuador to Peru and Brazil. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12423.aspx Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:00:20 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12423.aspx The National Government is committed ot develop the logistical zones in the country. Manta has demonstrated its great potential in this strategy because it will not only connect Manta with all of Ecuador, and also with Manaos in Brazil, but will also become Asia's Entry Point into America. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12419.aspx Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:32:04 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12419.aspx The company Transportes Bertolini and the National Government will push the construction of the necessary infrastructure for an economically viable line of river and ground transport between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12418.aspx Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:40:38 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12418.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12394.aspx Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12394.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12153.aspx Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:30:32 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12153.aspx Without the president's support, the iniciative of not extracting the 846 millions of barrels of oil from Ishpingo, Tambococha and Tiputini fails. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12098.aspx Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:56:03 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12098.aspx Oraldo Reategui, a member of the Audit Committee of IIRSA Projects, reported the meeting began with forty attendees, most of them officials of public institutions, being absent representatives of civil society due to poor call for participation by the authorities. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12055.aspx Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:56:18 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12055.aspx The opposition and experts in Ecuador are questioning a 1.68 billion dollar loan from China to finance 85 percent of the construction and equipment of the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric dam. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11925.aspx Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:04:17 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11925.aspx Fander Falconi was the third government official to resign over a plan to seek international donations of $3 billion over the next 10 years to keep an estimated 850 million barrels of heavy crude oil under the ground in the remote Yasuni National Park. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11728.aspx Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:09:05 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11728.aspx In the Ecuadorean Amazon basin our thirst for oil has triggered an eco-disaster: wholesale pollution and catastrophic cancer rates. And a bloody turf war has broken out. Ecuador is taking a survival plan to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. But will western governments listen? http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11673.aspx Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:47:28 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11673.aspx Output would help cover demand in Francisco de Orellana and Sucumbíos provinces as well as oil sector demand. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11603.aspx Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:54:18 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11603.aspx The hydroelectric project that will cost US$1.979 million will provide 75% of the electricity needs of the country. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11572.aspx Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:49:01 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11572.aspx A first loan for $350 million to finance investments in key bridge, maintenance work, road safety http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11569.aspx Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:31:45 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11569.aspx A first loan for $350 million to finance investments in key bridge, maintenance work, road safety http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11545.aspx Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:07:23 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11545.aspx Executive Summary http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11450.aspx Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:14:10 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11450.aspx Peru's fluvial ports Yurimaguas and Iquitos in Loreto region and Pucallpa in Ucayali form part of the anti-crisis package announced by President Alan García last December, designed to attract investments of over US$92mn. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11414.aspx Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:35:53 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11414.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11390.aspx Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:47:18 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11390.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11384.aspx Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:41:31 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11384.aspx On August 12, an Ecuadorian's government delegation will go to Singapore on an official visit with the intention to promote the Manta Manaus Corridor. The cornerstone projects in the portfolio are the Manta port, an airport and the Manta-Manaus route through the Napo river. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11367.aspx Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:38:27 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11367.aspx The government of Ecuador has come to an agreement with Hong-Kong based Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) to resume the administration of Manta port in Manabí province, local press reported. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11362.aspx Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:24:24 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11362.aspx Authorities will transfer the concession to a new company which will mean calling a new international tender, the presidential website reported. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11359.aspx Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:17:04 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11359.aspx Negotiations between Ecuador and Chinese Consortium focus on cost http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11335.aspx Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:16:24 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11335.aspx During his Saturday radio broadcast, the president insisted that this is a historic project. Ecuador's approach regarding the Yasuni-ITT initiative is to help prevent the emition of 400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11243.aspx Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11243.aspx Comment period on draft EIA between May 30 and June 3 http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11204.aspx Sat, 23 May 2009 07:47:36 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11204.aspx The country is thinking again about the project that has been discussed for several years. The goal is to link the Pacific and Atlantic. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11244.aspx Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11244.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11065.aspx Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11065.aspx Various participants at the forum raise their points of view regarding the integration of South America and the Manta-Manaus corridor as the entry point to the region. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11043.aspx Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:32:40 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11043.aspx Chinese controlled Port Concessionaire Hutchinson Holdings TIDE withdraws from Manta port concession - Ecuador http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11041.aspx Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:41:21 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11041.aspx http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11037.aspx Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11037.aspx The government reactivates the Central Corridor project to benefit the agricultural sector and commercial towns and cities that are on the road that will link the Manta-Manaus. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11035.aspx Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11035.aspx Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has threatened to revoke the Manta port concession if port operator Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) does not keep to its investment schedule. "If they do not comply with the Manta port concession, they will simply have to leave the country," Correa said in an address to the nation. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11014.aspx Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.11014.aspx