The Railway
Railway Infrastructure Supply Agreement (CPIF)
One key aspect in the integral improvement of the railway service is the recovery of railway infrastructure for the purpose of showing its advantages and competitiveness in transport.
Thus, the importance of the Railway Infrastructure Supply Agreements (CPIF, for its abbreviation in Spanish), whose objectives are basically the construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of the railway tracks, which have to be built or rehabilitated so that they can reach the service standards required for each stretch of the track. Additionally, maintenance of the railway tracks has to be in accordance to these standards during the term of the agreement.
CPIFs are done through a public international bid mechanism in which big conglomerates of the global infrastructure industry compete, attracted by the new investment opportunities that our company presents.
Currently, there are two projects that operate under this scheme: North Zone, Central Zone.
The first milestone of the Northern Area became a reality with the rehabilitation of the railway track of the stretches Paine-Talagante and Talagante-Barrancas, by the transnational Comsa. To these routes we can add the stretches Alameda-Talagante, Alameda-Limache and Limache¬-Valparaíso, which together cover 368.3 kilometers.
Thanks to this project, for example, the connection of the ports of Ventanas, Valparaíso and San Antonio with the most important production and distribution centers of the country improved.
The CPIF of the Central Area was awarded to the Spanish consortium Tecsa Dragados (TECDRA). The agreement provides the rehabilitation and maintenance of 750 kilometers of tracks in the route Alameda-Chillán, Chillán-San Rosendo, San Rosendo-Talcahuano and Concepción-Lomas Coloradas for 16 years.
The project considers the improvement of the railway tracks, intersections, pedestrian crossings, supply, installation, maintenance and operations of crossing guards system to protect the intersections and cleanliness of the strip track.