General News

Medellin’s Downtown Olaya Herrera Airport Starts International Executive-Jet Flights

Medellin Herald April 15, 2016

Colombia’s national infrastructure agency (ANI) announced April 14 that just-completed upgrades to Medellin’s downtown Olaya Herrera airport enable the start-up of international executive-jet flights in May 2016 — just before the World Economic Forum (WEF) conference. The airport upgrades

General News

Colombia Industrial Production Jumps; Medellin Leads Nation in Retail Sales Growth

Medellin Herald April 15, 2016

Colombia’s national statistical agency (DANE) announced April 14 that industrial production jumped 8.2% year-on-year (y-o-y) in February 2016 — the latest month for which statistics are available — versus a 1% y-o-y net decline in industrial output in February 2015. It’s another sign indicating that Colombia is starting to rebound from the global collapse in

General News

Cormagdalena Sets May 11 Deadline for Magdalena River Navigation Financing Data

Medellin Herald March 31, 2016

Cormagdalena – the Colombian government agency overseeing a proposed scheme that would restore commercial navigation on the Magdalena River between the Atlantic Ocean and key inland ports – announced March 29 that it has set a May 11 deadline by which dredging-project proponent Navelena SAS must provide crucial documentation required for project finance. The Magdalena […]

General News

Medellin Airports Getting Aircraft Navigation Surveillance Upgrade

Medellin Herald March 31, 2016

Sweden-based high-tech systems provider Saab announced March 30 that downtown Medellin’s Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport (national flights) and the nearby José María Córdova International Airport (international flights originating at Rionegro) will get aircraft navigational upgrades. According to Saab, the company won a contract from Aeronáutica Civil de Colombia (Aerocivil)

General News

Antioquian Inventors Tapped for ‘Colombia Great Inventor’ Prize Competition

Medellin Herald March 31, 2016

Two young inventors from Antioquia — Rafael Vides Mesa and Daniel Cuartas Quiceno — are among 10 national candidates for the “Colombia Great Inventor” prize competition this year. According to cell-phone telecom giant Claro – the “Great Inventor” prize sponsor – the winner of this year’s competition would obtain new funding to help move their […]

General News

EPM’s Giant ‘Guatape’ Hydroelectric Plant Repairs Underway; Rationing Threat Lessens

Medellin Herald March 28, 2016

Medellin-based power giant EPM announced March 25 the successful delivery of the last of eight groups of replacement cables and related equipment for repairing its 560-megawatt (MW) “Guatape” hydroelectric plant in Antioquia. The plant went off-line February 15 because of a fire in an access tunnel, which officials suspect could be traced to some defect […]

General News

USAID Launches ‘Oro Legal’ Responsible-Mining Projects in Antioquia

Medellin Herald March 4, 2016

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced March 4 the launch of “Oro Legal” projects aiming to promote environmentally and socially responsible gold mining in Antioquia and Chocó departments. Among the companies that will cooperate in the projects is Medellin-based gold-mining giant Mineros SA, recognized nationally and internationally for its

General News

Antioquia a Winner in First-Ever International Bond Float for ‘4G’ Highways

Medellin Herald February 15, 2016

A US$260 million bond float successfully organized by U.S.-based Goldman Sachs represents a big boost for Colombia’s massive “fourth generation” (4G) highway construction projects, which aim to overcome decades of logistical isolation from world markets. According to Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos and the Agencia Nacional de Infraestructura (ANI) highway development

General News

Antioquia Sees Progress on ‘4G’ Highways, Ocean Freight Port, but Gov. Perez Blocks Toyo

Medellin Herald February 3, 2016

Colombia’s national infrastructure development agency (ANI) announced in late January that progress is being made on crucial “fourth generation” (4G) highway projects (totaling COP$12 trillion/US$3.5 billion) in Antioquia, as well as the just-approved “Port Antioquia” ocean freight project. Approved “4G” projects in Antioquia so far include construction of a second,

General News

Canada’s PharmaCielo Proposes Marijuana Extract Farm in Antioquia

Medellin Herald February 3, 2016

Toronto-based PharmaCielo announced February 3 that it has petitioned Colombia’s Ministry of Health and the National Council on Narcotics for rights to build a marijuana farm and cannabis extract plant in the Medellin suburb of Rionegro, Antioquia. The enterprise would produce oil extracts that could be used for elaboration of drugs for treating cancer, epilepsy […]