SECTOR | TRANSPORT - LATIN AMERICA


LATIN METROS


Tunnel projects in Brazil, Chile and Panama are among the metro expansions underway in Latin America


Metro development is widespread in the largest cities of many nations, and continents. In Latin America there is significant capital investment to expand metro systems, such as the enlargements being undertaken in São Paulo, Brazil, in Santiago, Chile, and in Panama. In Brazil, Preferred Bidders were recently named for Lots


on São Paulo’s Line 19-Celeste project. In Chile, the metro network is also rapidly expanding,


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São Paulo picks Preferred Bidders for three Lots on Line 19-Celeste metro project. Photo credit: Ghella


30 | January 2026


with a current main focus for procurement on Lines 8 and 9, both of which are dominated by underground infrastructure. Consultants recently won packages of works to help develop the metro lines. In Panama, a year of tunnelling has taken for Line 3 below the Panama Canal.


BRAZIL - SÃO PAULO Metro Line 19 São Paulo’s metro authority, Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo, has named the Preferred Bidders for three Lots on the city’s new Line 19-Celeste project. The line is to be 17.6km-long with 15 stations. Lot 1’s Preferred Bidder is PowerChina (Yellow River).


The offer was approximately US$0.92 billion (R$5 billion). The Preferred Bidder for Lots 2 and 3 is ‘Via Celeste’


consortium, comprising Ghella, Odebrecht and Álya. The bids are valued at approximately US$1.23 billion (R$6.7 billion) and US$1.27 billion (R$6.9 billion), respectively. Each lot includes the design and construction of 5.8km of tunnel and five stations.


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