The Ministry of Foreign Trade reported that the works, worth $1 million, will be completed in the first half of the year. In parallel, remodeling will be done to the border post and a new fumigation arc installed for trucks and vehicles.
"It is hoped that this will relieve congestion at the border crossing, as in December lines formed of up to seven kilometers long, as vans waited to do the paperwork and go north.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade (Comex), Fernando Ocampo added that they also expect to have, in the first half of the year, the so-called export ‘control booths’. These are similar to toll stations where the entire process is done without the driver leaving the truck", reported Nacion.com.
Source: Nacion.com
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August 2011
The action plan is designed to address the state of emergency that has been declared on the border between Costa Rica and Panama.
A press release from the Costa Rican Ministry of Foreign Trade states:
“The five month action plan will involve increasing the number of traffic officers, implementing an electronic collection system for fumigation charges, extending opening hours until midnight, contracting a design for the primary zone, implementing a system of international transit of goods, widening the highway to four lanes, and starting the remodeling of the immigration building. ‘Technological tools exist today that allow us to complete formalities in advance. To promote use of these, and to make the Peñas Blancas border crossing a place to pass through and not to do paperwork, we will establish before the primary zone a checkpoint that will to give priority to exporters who arrive with their paperwork already processed’, said Vice Minister, Fernando Ocampo.
February 2011
Works on the new customs building shared by Nicaragua and Costa Rica will begin by the middle of the year.
The announcement was made by the Deputy Director of Immigration, Freddy Montero, who added that more staff will be hired in order to make procedures more efficient.
August 2011
The first stage of the plan submitted by the Costa Rican Ministry of Foreign Trade will cost $4 million.
Some of the tasks envisaged for the modernization of the Peñas Blancas border include extending service hours, increasing the amount of traffic officers and expanding the highway to four lanes.
July 2010
Next year Costa Rica will begin work to modernize Peñas Blancas customs, which it shares with Nicaragua.
Costa Rica's second vice president, Luis Liberman Ginsburg, unveiled the plans and added that the new buildings to be constructed will house Customs, Immigration and Agriculture offices.
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