en.Wedoany.com Reported - On May 25, 2026, China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd. (CHEC) further solidified its long-term development strategy in Chile by establishing a subsidiary in the country. The new subsidiary of this globally leading infrastructure construction enterprise reports directly to headquarters, positioning Chile as a strategic hub for expanding its presence in the Southern Cone market.
Accompanying this organizational move, CHEC has set up a new corporate office at the Santiago Marriott Hotel, spanning 489 square meters across two floors, featuring eight private offices and a meeting room on each level.
CHEC has been operating in Latin America since the 1980s and established a regional division in Panama in 2015. It currently manages projects in over 19 countries, accounting for more than 40% of the group's total international investment, with an active contract portfolio exceeding USD 20 billion. By establishing a subsidiary in Chile, the company enters the local market with an independent legal structure, aiming to enhance its financial and technical robustness to develop large-scale, highly complex projects.
CHEC is not entering the Chilean market as a newcomer. The company first participated in the Chilean market in 2013, undertaking the reconstruction of the pier at the San Vicente Terminal Internacional in Talcahuano, which was damaged by the 2010 earthquake. Subsequently, it carried out works at the San Antonio International Terminal. In 2018, through the concessionaire CHEC Chile Las Palmas, established specifically for the project, CHEC became the first Chinese company to win a public tender in Chile, securing the Las Palmas Reservoir project in the Valparaíso Region.
With the new structure of CHEC's Chilean subsidiary fully operational, its growth agenda focuses on two priority areas. The first is the Outer Port of San Antonio, where the company is one of the global pre-qualified participants for the breakwater and dredging works, positioning it among the world's largest dredging companies. The second area is social and transportation infrastructure, encompassing social housing, prison facilities, and railway projects. In the railway sector, the company is replicating the project model currently being implemented in the construction of Bogotá Metro Line 1, a 23.96-kilometer line with 16 stations that will benefit approximately 2.9 million people upon completion.
The credentials CHEC presents to the Chilean market are backed by projects of global and regional scale. These include the Port of Chancay in Peru, designed to become a logistics hub between South America and Asia; the Fourth Bridge over the Panama Canal, whose main tower stands 186 meters high, making it the largest single bridge built by a Chinese company in Latin America; and the Mar 2 Highway in Colombia, the first public-private partnership project financed by a Chinese company in Latin America.
In the international port sector, the company built the Shanghai Yangshan Deep-Water Port, considered the world's largest container port and the smart terminal with the highest annual throughput globally. In road and rail infrastructure, it participated in the construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, and the Second Penang Bridge in Malaysia, the longest bridge in Southeast Asia at the time of its opening, a project that received the Brunel Prize from the British Society of Civil Engineers.
Founded in the 1980s, CHEC operates in over 90 countries with more than 20,000 employees. With the establishment of the new subsidiary in Santiago, Chile becomes a strategic priority area within the company's largest global investment hub.
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