A Chinese consortium on Thursday signed an agreement with Brazil’s northeast state of Bahia to build Latin America’s longest cable-stayed sea bridge, linking the city of Salvador and the island of Itaparica. The consortium is formed by the China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), CCCC South America Regional Company and China Railway 20 Bureau Group Corporation. […]

The Government of Bahia is preparing to launch in the second half of the bidding process for the construction of the Salvador-Itaparica Bridge. The intervention is part of the Western Road System (SVO) project, whose construction will be possible thanks to the public-private partnership (PPP), budgeted at R $ 5.34 billion, with a contribution of […]

The balance of the first half of 2020 in the Bahian real estate market arrived with good news. SELIC bank lending rates now at a record low rate of just 2% After four consecutive years of decline, real estate credit contracted again in Bahia (7.23% in relation to the first half of 2017), according to […]

Cunard Line’s Queen Victoria is sailing around South America this year instead of a world circumnavigation. Queen Victoria will embark on a 75-night South American voyage (V804C). Cruising across the Atlantic to North America, down to the Caribbean and then on to four different Brazilian ports, including two maiden calls and a fantastic overnight stay in Rio […]

The daily flow of cars, trucks and motorcycles at the Salvador-Itaparica bridge is expected to reach 140,000 vehicles by 2043. This is the estimate of former Petrobras president and current Planning Secretary of Bahia, José Sergio Gabrielli, during his weekly program, which is available for download at www.facebook.com/josesergiogabrielli. According to Gabrielli, this is a structuring […]