Editing Transport in Venezuela (section)

====2006====

* Venezuela awards contracts worth $2.2 billion to build two new railway lines.  Construction on the two new lines connecting [[San Juan de los Morros]] to [[San Fernando de Apure]] and connecting [[Chaguaramas, Venezuela|Chaguaramas]] to [[Cabruta]] is expected to begin in Q2 2006 and is expected to take six years to complete. [[April 2006 in rail transport]].
* In October 2006, Venezuela opened a new [[Caracas]]-[[Cúa]] railway, the first new railway in the country for 70 years<ref>VENEZUELA: A Bolivarian railway, by Coral Wynter & Jim McIlroy, Caracas [http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/688/688p24b.htm (link)] {{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref>
* "Towards the end of this month, we would have final discussions with [[Mittal Steel Company|Mittal Steel]]," said Mr Kapur, adding that the initial discussions took place in March.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}  Moreover, [[Ircon]] is also likely to construct a new rail line in Venezuela at an estimated cost of $350 million.