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Esther Alcocer Koplowitz
underscores the
commitment to Panama
that the new Metro line 2
represents for FCC
The Citizen Services Group will work, in
partnership with Brazil’s Odebrecht, in the
construction of the new metro line, for an
amount of 1.650 million Euros.
The construction will have 16 stations and 21
kilometres of elevated rails and will benefit
approximately benefit half a million people
in the Eastern sector of Panama.
FCC was awarded last June a contract
for the construction of Line 2 of the Pana-
ma Metro, in partnership with Odebrecht.
For Esther Alcocer Koplowitz, chairman of
FCC, this contract represents the Citizen
Services Group’s commitment to work and
invest in Panama.
In a visit of the Spanish Minister of Develo-
pment, Ana Pastor, to the premises of the
Metro Secretariat and to line 1 (also built by
FCC and Odebrecht), Esther Alcocer Ko-
plowitz, said: “we are facing a new stage
with which we strengthen our continued in-
terest and commitment to work and invest
in Panama”.
After expressing the joy, pride and respon-
sibility that this award implies, Esther Alco-
cer Koplowitz said that “after so many sha-
red experiences, we feel as Panamanians
as the 1,500 people who make possible
our projects here.”
The managers of FCC in the region explai-
ned to the Minister of Development, Ana