Top Peruvian officials met at Peru’s Ministry of Economics and Finance in Lima on May 26 with Chinese officials and businessmen, to “exchange views on railway infrastructure development” in Peru, and, in particular, to “align strategic visions” as regards the building of the first transcontinental railway across the interior of South America, linking Brazil’s Atlantic ports—and everything in between—to the ultra-modern deepwater port at Chancay on Peru’s Pacific coast. Peru is now all-in on getting the railway underway.
Economics and Finance Minister Raúl Pérez Reyes and Transport and Communications Minister Cesar Sandoval Pozo headed up the Peruvian team at the meeting; the President of the National Railway Administration of China Mr. Fei Dongbin and China’s Ambassador Mr. Song Yang, led China’s team.
“Both [Peruvian] ministers expressed their interest in promoting a high-level meeting between the governments of Peru, China and Brazil to agree on regional integration objectives through the Central Bi-Oceanic Railway Corridor (CFBC), which would link the Atlantic with the Pacific through the port of Chancay,” the Economics and Finances Ministry reported after the meeting.
