Italy’s Salini Impregilo, Brazil’s Odebrecht, the Chinese firm CHEC and Costa Rica’s MECO are the four companies that participated in the field trip to see the route that line 3 will take.

From a statement issued by Metro de Panama:

With a visit to the site where the works of Line 3 of the Metro de Panama will be developed, today saw the start of the pre-selection process of companies eligible to participate in the Best Value Tender with separate evaluation for the construction of this mega project, which will benefit a large population of the province of Panama West.

The visited involved a total of 28 companies, in which representatives were able to observe, on a tour guided by the Project Director of Metro de Panama S.A., Agustín Arias, the route or path of Line 3, as well as areas where the development of future stations might be built, a total of 14 of them.

The aim of this tour is to make bidders aware of local conditions in which the works will be carried out and, simultaneously, to estimate the topography of the route of this third line.

The companies that participated are:

GUANGZHOU METRO DESIGN AND RESEARCH COMPANY L.
CHINA HARBOUR ENGINEERING COMPANY
T.Y. LIN INTERNATIONAL
DRAGADOS, S.A.
CONSTRUCTORA NORBERTO ODEBRECH, S.A.
ANDRADE GUTIERREZ
FLORIAN LOZACHMEUR
MIT LOGISTIC, S.A.
CONSTRUCTORA MECO, S.A.
GYM, S.A. (PERÚ)
ASTALDI
ACCIONA INFRAESTRUCTURAS, S.A.
CCA PANAMÁ
FCC CONSTRUCCIÓN AMERICA, S.A.
CSCEC LTD
INECO
SOFRATESA
CONSTRUCTORA QUEIROZ GALVAO, S.A.
CONTRUCTORA OAS/OAS EYC
POWER CHINA
GROHYDOR CORPORATION
DAELIM INDUSTRIAL CO. LTD
SETEC
SENER, INGENIERIA Y SISTEMAS
CONSORCIO COTRANS-SUMA CITY PLAN
ALSTOM PANAMA, S.A.
CHINA RALWAY CONTRUCTION GROUP
SALINI IMPREGILO