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tunnel, from Faucett Avenue to Nestor Gambetta Avenue. In February of this year, the finance arrangement for Me- tro de Lima won the Americas Deal of the Year 2015 award organized by the magazine Project Finance Inter- national. Relevant projects FCC also participates in the mainte- nance of the Pan-American Highway (Chorrera-San Carlos section, Pana- ma Oeste province) measuring 53 km. In Chile, it is executing the construc- tion of section 3 which will connect the towns of Iquique and Alto Hospicio. It is also involved in the project for the conversion of Sector Urbano (Route 4, Santiago Los Vilos). In 2015, Socie- dad Concesionaria de la Autopista del Aconcagua awarded the company a contract for the enlargement of three of the four two-way lanes as well as the construction of the service road, modification of the intersections, trans- versal drainage, and the construction of pedestrian footbridges. In Colombia, the Company is execu- ting the Toyo tunnel project situated between the municipalities of Giral- do and Cañasgordas, 500 kilome- tres northeast of the capital, with a new road layout measuring 40.84 km going two ways and a lane in each direction. FCC Industrial is also wor- king on high-voltage, simple circuit overhead line with 114 metal towers and the 45 km of conductors and op- tic fibre lines for EPM. In the middle of 2016, FCC Construc- ción Costa Rica completed the 50.6 km-long Cañas-Liberia section of the Inter-American Road. This year, FCC Industrial (the FCC and Felguera IHI) consortium, won a contract for the construction of the Vopak oil storage terminal in Bahía las Minas (Colon province) in the At- lantic coast of Panama. In the hydraulics sector, FCC is invol- ved in the dredging of the River Bogo- tá (Colombia). The project contempla- tes the relocation and reinforcement of the existing lateral banks as well as deepening and widening of the riverbed, including dredging contami- nated materials that will be processed before transferring it to authorised landfill sites. In the maritime sector, the Company completed the Puerto de Açu (Brazil) project which con- sisted in the construction of Terminal TX-1 in the Açu Harbour (Brazil) loca- ted in the north-eastern part of Brazil, the region where 85% of the country’s oil is produced. Also in this region, it has built a non-residential project, the Ciudad de la Salud (Panama) which includes the design, urban develop- ment, environmental impact studies, construction and finance and equip- ping of the healthcare facilities. New terminal in Mexico The new airport will be the world’s se- cond most important under construc- tion, and the main contract to build the new airfield will be one of the largest infrastructure works currently un- derway in Latin America. The materials recycling plant in Dallas (U.S.) DID YOU KNOW …? D I D Y O U K N O W … ? 12