The consortium made up of two Japanese companies and one French company will develop the pre-feasibility study for the new metro master network, with emphasis on lines 4 and 5.

The consortium, called Nippon Koei Lac-Sytra, is made up of the Japanese companies Nippon Koei Co. Ltd and Nippon Koei LAC Inc, and the French company Sytra. 

See details of the contest for the “Master Plan for Panama Metro“.

Elcapitalfinanciero.com reports that “ …The consortium scored the highest among the six consulting firms that were shortlisted from a group of 26 companies that initially had expressed an interest in taking part in this process.

“… The project, which will cost $150,000.00, will be financed by funds from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with which the Panama Metro signed a non-reimbursable technical cooperation agreement in April 2014.”

The work consists in carrying out a pre-feasibility analysis of the New Master Metro Network of Panama, with emphasis on lines 4 and 5, based on demand estimates developed under the TRANUS system, updating the MPSA database in terms of physical, socio-economic and urban development variables in the different corridors that make up the network.