The 153.2km project will connect Medellín with the Ruta del Sol highway and with the department of Santander and will also improve Bogotá's connection with the Caribbean ports.
As ratings agency Standard & Poor lowered Colombia's sovereign currency rating from investment grade into junk status, two government development banks and one commercial bank also took the hit. Findeter, FDN & Banco Davivienda al saw credit ratings drop out of investment grade,...