This weekend the operation of the railway corridor begins Facatativá-Bogotá-Belencito and La Caro-Zipaquiráwhich is key to boosting the productivity of the departments of Cundinamarca and Boyacá.

To achieve this, the National Infrastructure Agency (ANI) entered into an inter-administrative technical assistance agreement with Findeter for two years that will guarantee the passenger transportation and cargo movement.

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The scope of this agreement includes the administration, surveillance, traffic control, operation and maintenance of the railway corridor, as well as the control of trains and emergency care.

It also includes intervention for the administration of the same path. In total, the investment in work to be carried out is more than 104,000 million pesos, in 308 kilometers of railway line.

Facatativá-Bogotá-Belencito and La Caro-Zipaquirá railway corridor

The Bogotá-Belencito corridor mobilized 31,000 tons of products such as cement and steel last year

«In the midst of all the railway reactivation, we prioritized the operation of the Bogotá-Belencito corridor, which last year mobilized 31,000 tons of products such as cement and steel«, unleashed William Camargo, president of the ANI.

Since 2018, this corridor restarted operation and since then it has mobilized a total of more than 174,000 tons of cargo, being strategic to connect Boyacá and Cundinamarca with the interior of the country. Also, so far in 2023 25,000 passengers have been mobilized.

The reactivation of this line also joins the railway portfolio that the ANI will execute during the government of President Gustavo Petro.

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In that order, in December 2022 the contract was adjusted to carry out the studies and designs, at the pre-feasibility level, with the Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional, for the reactivation of the Pacific rail corridor from the Port of Buenaventura and its connection with the Central Railway Corridor that joins La Dorada with Santa Marta.

Additionally, progress is being made in structuring a concession precisely for the route La Dorada-Chiriguana.