President Martinelli attends FCC’s
inauguration ceremony of Panama City’s central
corridor for traffic
FCC has opened a section of the Vía Bra-
sil corridor, Panama City’s main avenue, for
traffic. The inaugural ceremony was led by
Ricardo Martinelli, President of Panama,
and Esther Alcocer Koplowitz, Chairman
of FCC; attendees included Jaime Ford,
Panama’s Minister of Public Works, Direc-
tors FCC Alicia y Carmen Alcocer Koplowitz
and Fernando Moreno, head of FCC Cons-
truction, among others.
The section inauguratd will be completed
with the Via Brasil II corridor. This first sec-
tion, which cost 167 million euro, included
the removal of traffic lights and the cons-
truction of an overpass, a tunnel and an
aboveground roundabout.
After completing this section, FCC Cons-
truction is currently working on section II
of the Vía Brasil corridor, which affects the
intersections of three of the city’s main ave-
The Ministry of Public Works plans
to invest 306 million euro in Vía Brasil l and ll
to improve traffic in Panama City
The reorganisation of road networks in the capital will
benefit more than one million people
