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Colombia: the roads more traveled

Did you know that in the past, the poor quality of #Colombia’s highways and roads made it cheaper to send a shipping container to Asia than to transport items from a Colombian port to an inland city?

A standardized mega-road program (4G) that operates under the country’s new PPP law has offered solutions and attracted billions of dollars from top global players.

Colombia: the roads more traveled

Photo: Dominic Chavez / International finance Corporation In the early 1990s, Colombia’s road Infrastructure was a maze of poorly maintained roads and bad highways. Difficult geography—the Pacific coast jungle and the Andes branching out into three chains—made it harder to improve road conditi…