HIGHWAYS

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The project provides for the construction of important sections of the highway system, including the completion of the main trunk highways linking Medellin and Cali, both important centers of industry and agriculture, with their natural port outlets at Cartagena on the Atlantic and Buenaventura on the Pacific. The project would also cover the preparation of pre-investment studies and detailed engineering for other priority roads selected on the basis of the Harvard Transportation Investment Survey, the conclusions of which are expected to become available this summer. In addition, the project would include Phase II of the Management Study, prepared by consultants under Credit 5C0, which involves the implementation of the consultants' recommendations for the reorganization of the Ministry of Public Works. The Project would also provide for miscellaneous laboratory and workshop equipment needed in carrying out the reorganization. The executing agency would be the Ministry of Public Works assisted by consultants.