Through its Central-American subsidiary M&S, FCC will be building section 2 of the south segment of road CA-5 in Comayagua, Honduras, in a 24-month completion period with a budget of 39.6 million euro.

The Honduran government has awarded M&S, FCC Construcción's subsidiary in Central America, the contract to build section 2 of the south segment of road CA-5 in a 24-month completion period with a 39.6-million-euro budget. The work is being done in response to the need to improve the road due to its increased traffic volume and the decline in safety found along some sections.

The project, financed by the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Program, is being executed thanks to a donation of 175 million dollars from the government and people of the United States through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). The south segment, which threads through a mountainous region, is 33.3 kilometres long, and the project calls for the improvement and replacement of existing drainage due to the widening of the lanes and the construction of a change of alignment between kilometre point 43+300 and kilometre point 46+600 to accommodate the traffic driving up from the Comayagua Valley.

The northern CA-5 is 294 kilometres long and sees a daily intensity of between 5,400 and 8,300 vehicles (35% heavy vehicles). It is included in the Honduran section of the Atlantic corridor, which channels most of the country's import and export traffic between Puerto Cortés and the main production centres, San Pedro Sula, Comayagua and Tegucigalpa. It bears approximately 23% of all of Honduras' road traffic by volume.

The project forms part of the MCC Program and the Poverty Reduction Strategy (ERP) of Honduras, which strives to raise the real GDP growth level by 4.5% per year on a sustainable basis and to reduce the country's poverty and extreme poverty indices by 1.6 percentage points per year. For this purpose, the program is supporting action to eliminate obstacles to growth in urban and rural areas and to strengthen the central logistical corridor of the Honduran economy.

The refurbishment and improvement of this road will give this region, a hub of tourist, recreational and urban development, a safe, efficient overland route for communication.