IP-115-2015

CO-FINANCED UNSOLICITED PROPOSAL
“LURIN - CHINCHA COMMUTER RAILWAY”
Information to be published in PROINVERSION’S institutional website pursuant to paragraph
27.3 under article 27 of the Regulations pertaining to Legislative Decree nº 1012, enacted by
virtue of Supreme Decree nº 127-2014-EF as amended:
1. Proposed type of private investment participation
 Concession contract
2. Name and type of project, indication whether public facility, public services and/or
services related thereto that the State is required to provide or applied research
and/or technological innovation project pertaining to the State’s role, as well as
indications on the entity owning the goods pertaining to the Project or its statutory
condition.
Name of project:
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Lurin - Chincha commuter railway
Type of project
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The project includes the design, building, maintenance and operation of a
commuter train linking the city of Lima to the city of Chincha. The contract period
will be 50 years.
The proposed route envisages starting the train service at Conchan Bridge in Lurin
district, to run along the south Pan-American Highway to the city of Chincha.
The project comprised in this private initiative will require using goods in the
public domain as well as private properties. Using the latter will require
expropriations and acquisitions by the Peruvian state. Consequently, this project
falls within plans to create public railway infrastructure which will be used to
provide public passenger transportation service.
The competent entity is the Ministry of Transport and Communications
3. Project’s area of influence
 The project’s area of influence includes the regions (states) of Lima and Ica, and
more specifically the following areas:
- High impact: those areas immediately adjoining the proposed route including
Lurin, Punta Hermosa, Punta Negra, San Bartolo, Santa María del Mar,
Pucusana, Chilca, San Antonio, Mala, Asia, Cerro Azul, San Luis de Cañete, San
Vicente de Cañete, Sunampe, Chincha Alta, etc.
- Low impact: Metropolitan Lima districts as well as Pueblo Nuevo, Tambo de
Mora, Chincha Baja, El Carmen, Alto Larán, Chavín, San Juan de Yanac, San
Clemente, Independencia, Humay, San Andrés, Tupac Amaru Inca, Paracas,
Salas, Subtanjalla, Ocucaje and other towns.
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4. Objectives, including the characteristics of the service, and the required service
standard, as applicable
 To provide passenger transportation services in the center-south coastal band of
Peru that meet international quality and efficiency standards.
 To contribute to the national government’s policy to foster private investments.
 To contribute to local economic development and direct and indirect job creation
in the project’s area of influence and spur the national economy
 To contribute to modernizing the project’s area of influence and foster its
development.
 To promote the optimum use of existing human and economic resources.
 To design, build and operate a commuter rail transportation system.
 To create new sources of permanent formal jobs in Peru.
 To increase the social and economic value of the areas adjoining the project.
 To contribute to enhance the peoples’ cultural and institutional identity.
5. Advantages for society
 Reducing travel time would be a major social benefit stemming from the building
of a mass transportation system in the involved areas.
 Improved security would be an additional major social benefit derived from this
type of project. These benefits include lower accident and injury rates, and less
fatalities and physical damage.
 A transportation project of this type ca change the value of properties (land and
buildings) and the use pattern of surrounding soil. Residents and companies in the
areas near the facilities will perceive changes in their neighborhoods, which will
become more attractive places for living, working and doing business.
Av. Enrique Canaval Moreyra Nº 150, Piso 9, San Isidro, Lima Telf.: (511) 200-1200, Fax:(511)4422948
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