Panama: Mexican cement manufacturer Cemex is the sole cement supplier for Panama City's metro line 1.
Cemex will provide nearly 0.1Mt of cement for the construction of the line, which will run 13.6km from the San Miguelito neighbourhood in the north of the city to the Albrook bus terminal in the south, with 11 stations in total. Construction is being carried out by Spanish firm FCC and Brazil's Odebrecht at an estimated total cost of US$1.45bn.
Line 1 will be both above and below ground will and include tunnels, trenches and viaducts. It is expected to have an initial capacity to transport 15,000 people per hour in 2014, rising to 40,000 by 2035. The line will make Panama the first Central American country to have a metro system.
