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Transport
road TRANSPORT
The road network of Ecuador has been developed
and under continuous rehabilitation in the last few
years. Ecuador has a road network of approximately
44,000 km of which 8,654 km, corresponds to the
state network.
Altogether, the Ecuadorian state has invested
heavily in the country’s infrastructure. A total of
$2,265,884,610.00 USD has been spent to repair and
improve existing roads as well as building new ones.
In fact, 54% of this investment is on repairing roads.
Ecuador is well connected for business as all cargo
can be transported more or less everywhere in
Ecuador, apart from the more remote areas of the
Amazon.
MANTA-MANAUS PROJECT
INTRODUCTION
The project is aimed at enabling the road axis that
can transport large quantities of cargo from the
port of Manta in the coastal province of Manabí to
a transfer port located in the Amazonian province
of Orellana. This way goods could be shipped in
river vessels traveling through the Napo River in the
Ecuadorian Amazon to the port of New Rocafuerte,
on the border with Peru, then continuing on its route
to Manaus and then Belém in the Brazilian state of
Pará.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
The main objective of this project is to provide a
multimodal transportation corridor that integrates the
Pacific Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean, enhancing the
Find your way of transport The exclusive lanes for buses in Guayaquil called Metrovia
transport capacity of the Amazon basin through the
Amazon River system, as well as roads, railways,
river and sea ports, airports, transfer stations and
border crossings.
The Manta-Manaus route is considered as an
alternative to the Panama Channel for ships carrying
goods that use their facilities for crossing the Atlantic
to the Pacific Ocean. This route has an average
waiting time of 45 days, whilst the Manta-Manaus
could reduce this wait by 30 days.
The land route between Manta and Manaus is about
578 km, while the waterway is an estimated 861 km.
240 km of which is through the Ecuadorian territory
from Puerto Francisco de Orellana to the port of New
Rocafuerte on the border with Peru.
NEW METRO (SUBWAY/UNDERGROUND) OF
QUITO
The Metro will start its operations in Quito in the
middle of 2015. Feasibility studies have been con-
ducted by technicians of the Metro of Madrid, after
performing an investigation that lasted 4 months,
which had a very positive outcome. These sur-
veys will last another 13 months. The travel route
will be from Cotocallo until Quitumbe with a total
of 23 km – the central route will stretch across
11 km taking an estimated 42 minutes, while in
a car it would take 2 hours. The project will help
to reduce traffic congestion in the future, since in
2025 it is estimated that there will be a total of
1.290.000 vehicles in the city of Quito. The first
stage of construction will cost $8.075.000 USD
and the total cost of the project will be $1.200 mil-
lion USD.