With a 72 percent progress in the works, 10 percent more than expected to date, the Chirajara bridge over the road to Llano built by Coviandes, one of Corficolombiana’s subsidiaries, will be ready to start operating next October , six months before the agreed date, as announced by the financial institution.
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The foregoing is part of the results presented by the financial corporation of Grupo Aval, which isn the first quarter of this year, it obtained profits of the order of 610,000 million pesos, 7.3 percent lower than those registered in the similar period of 2022 and a consolidated Ebitda of 1.77 trillion pesos, 10.3 percent higher than a year ago.
The organization’s directives also highlighted the advances in other infrastructure works in which the entity participates through its subsidiaries, as well as the results obtained in the energy, gas, hotel and agribusiness businesses.
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For example, they indicated that Covipacífico enabled a 1.5 km dual carriageway route between the sectors of Bocas del Suroeste and El Llanerito on the road to Amagá, while the average daily traffic that circulates on the roads in which Corficolombiana invests, increased from 4.9 percent compared to the first quarter of 2022.
“We are pleased to see this quarter’s results, as they further commit us to the sectors that drive the Colombian economy. We are happy to inform that the Chirajara Bridge will be delivered ahead of schedule, at the same time that Promigas continues its expansion, now connecting 6 million users in Colombia and Peru”, said María Lorena Gutiérrez, president of the entity.
The board added that all the business fronts served by the organization reflect the commitment to sustainable development, which encourages them to continue working to generate a positive impact in the regions.
In this sense, he mentions that Quavii, in Peru, signed an agreement with the country’s Ministry of Energy and Mines for 48.3 million dollars to finance networks that will benefit 31,000 customers.
Promigas, for its part, continues to expand the natural gas service to the point that today there are already 6 million users connected to this service, an annual growth of 3.9 percent in Colombia and 19 percent in Peru.
On the same front, Surtigas, a Promigas company, put into operation new Natural Gas networks and connections in the township of Morroa in Sucre, benefiting 348 families in this community.
Estelar Hotels, in turn, occupancy reached an average of 68 percent in Colombia, exceeding the industry average of 61 percent, while in the agribusiness business, the results of the Pajonales rice harvest were highlighted. by the yield per hectare and increase in cultivated hectares, they specified in the entity.
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