Costa Rica
and Latin America
FCC, the Citizen Services Company, began
operating in Costa Rica in 2004. Since then,
it has completed major infrastructure pro-
jects such as the San José-Caldera highway
(77 kilometres long) and upgrading the Here-
dia-Alajuela road (10 kilometre section), and
several road maintenance contracts inclu-
ding the Barranca-Peñas Blancas highway
(200 kilometres long) and roads in Cartago,
the Atlantic zone, and San Ramón.
The company is currently expanding and
upgrading the Cañas-Liberia road (50 kilo-
metres long), which includes building/refur-
bishing 16 bridges. FCC has a backlog of
88 million euro and a workforce of over 300
people in Costa Rica.
FCC views Latin America as a strategic area,
and has been operating there for 15 years
through local companies, such as subsidia-
ries in Panama and Costa Rica. This region
accounts for 11.5% of group revenues (first-
half of 2013 figures), mainly attributable to
infrastructure development.
FCC’s activity in the region has been recog-
nized on several occasions, most recently
on 18 October, when FCC Chairman Esther
Alcocer Koplowitz received the Business
Growth Award from the Latin American Bu-
siness Council (CEAL) on behalf of the com-
pany. In particular, the jury highlighted FCC’s
achievements in the Americas over the last
15 years.
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