The SCT directly awarded a contract for 544 MDP for the construction of a new Mexico-Toluca Train station in CDMX.
The construction of the section of the Interurban train Mexico-Toluca, corresponding to Mexico City was reactivated. The capital government and the federal government's Ministry of Communications and Transportation assigned two construction contracts and one for supervision, via direct award, over a thousand 281 millions of pesos, according to data from both agencies consulted by Forbes Mexico.
The Secretariat of Works and Services of Mexico City awarded a contract by 719 millions 459 one thousand 204.18 pesos to the company Cargo Crane S.A. de C.V. for “transport and assembly of precast elements, civil work, environmental impact mitigation, induced and complementary to be executed on the prefabricated viaducts ”from the exit of the Portal Oriente to Observatorio.
Cargo Crane was part of the construction consortium made up of six companies and headed by CAABSA Constructora S.A. de C.V., owned by the brothers Luis Fernando and Julio Mauricio Amodio Herrera, who are also majority shareholders of the OHL group.
In December of 2014 the consortium signed a contract with the Ministry of Works for 10 one thousand 426 millions 277 one thousand 63.12 pesos for "construction works and complementary works of the section 3 for the elevated viaduct of the Mexico-Toluca Interurban Train ".
On this occasion the company Cargo Crane S.A. de C.V. will participate individually in the construction of section three of the TIMT. The term of your contract, identified with the number DGOT-AD-F-1-001-2021, is from 19 from May of this year to 18 October 2022, so that the crane specialist company will have a period of execution of the works of 517 natural days.
For his part, the Ministry of Communications and Transportation hired for 544 millions 523 one thousand 441.82 pesos to the construction consortium headed by Vise S.A. de C.V., owned by Santiago Villanueva Sandoval and Arcadio Serra Sala, for the construction of the Vasco de Quiroga station, in the area of the new fourth section of Bosque de Chapultepec.
Both the Vasco de Quiroga station and the Conagua-Manantial cable-stayed bridge, which is about to be tendered, were works added to the Mexico-Toluca Train project by the current government. The new station will be used to provide connectivity to the fourth section of the Chapultepec Forest and the Universidad de la Salud built by the government of Mexico City..
The cable-stayed bridge "solves the impossibility of having supports on the Sacmex and Artek properties", so a section of 200 meters, where the springs of Santa Fe are located. The tender for this work is in the pre-call phase, according to Compranet.
A third contract related to the Mexico-Toluca Interurban Train is the external supervision of the construction of the Vasco de Quiroga station., assigned to the company Orva Ingeniería S.A. de C.V. By a sum of 17 millions 619 one thousand 312.66 pesos.
The sum of the three contracts is one thousand 281 millions 601 one thousand 958.66 pesos to start again the construction of the section 3 of the Mexico-Toluca Train, which is expected to be ready by the end of next year.
According to the weekly report of the SCT, updated to 9 of August, in the stretch 3 of the Mexico-Toluca Interurban Train, that encompasses 17 kilometers from the exit of the bitumen that crosses the Sierra de las Cruces to the Observatorio terminal station, a work progress of the 52.9%, being the most backward of all the work, despite the fact that it started from 2014.
Fountain: Mexico Forbes