Carlos Alberto Rosado Zúniga

To the Minister of Transport, Germain Cardona Gutiérrez took office as Director General of the National Roads Institute - winters, the civil engineer Barranquillero, Carlos Alberto Rosado Zúñiga.

Rosado Zúñiga, appointed by Decree 3030 of August 12, 2010, is a Civil Engineer from the Universidad del Norte, with a Masters in Civil Engineering and Advanced Studies in Financial Management from the University of the Andes.

He has served as Director of the North Branch of the Colombian Chamber of Infrastructure, General Manager of the North Port Association, Executive Director and Project Manager ASOPORTUARIA company Tcherassi Castro, among others.

He was also a member of the National Board of the Colombian Chamber of Infrastructure - CCI, a member of the Board of the Urban Development Corporation Barranquilla - EDUBAR, and member of the Board Intergremial Atlantic Committee. He worked at the conclusion of the delimitation of the RAMSAR Convention on the Magdalena River delta, together with the Ministry of Environment, the Municipality of Barranquilla and the Government of the Atlantic.

It's part as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Tennis Foundation, a non-profit organization that tends the dissemination and implementation of programs and activities for education and health of children and youth of low socioeconomic status of the department of Atlántico.

As director of winters intends to work immediately to manage and get the resources needed to address the proper maintenance of the national road network in the term 2011, designing new projects with clear budgets and comprehensive studies that minimize risks during development, so how to implement multimodal transportation alternatives, for he will seek the rehabilitation of 1,741 kilometers of railway and the improvement of 25 thousand kilometers of secondary and tertiary road network.

As for waterborne modes, challenges are aimed at advancing the depth over 12 meters in the channels of access to the ports of Cartagena, Santa Marta and Buenaventura, and lead to deeper than 40 feet the access channel to the port of Barranquilla. On the subject river channelization works continue and deepen the Meta River and the construction of a stretch of eight miles to complete the dam of La Mojana, of which 60 have already been built.

Functions of INVIAS' Manager

Act Number 2056 of 2003
(July 24)

Chapter I

Article 7. General Manager's office. The National Roads Institute's General Manager's office shall exercise the following functions:

7.1 It shall manage, coordinate, watch over and control the execution of the organization's or its personnel's functions or programs.

7.2 It shall carry the Institute's legal representation in every act and contract, which are necessary for the fulfillment of its functions and objectives.

7.3 It shall provide general and particular reports to the Head of State and to the Minister of Transportation, concerning the activities performed, the entity's general situation and the measures adopted that may affect the course of the Government's policies.

7.4 It shall make the decisions which provide the best defense for the entity's interests.

7.6 It shall watch over the executions of the dispositions and agreements of the Board of Directors.

7.7 It shall lead and forward the contractual activities and ordering of the entity's expenses, which it may delegate in accordance with the law.

7.8 It shall guide the making of plans and programs, preliminary budget plans for the entity's operation and investment, as well as for its modification proposals, and it shall submit them to the approval of the board of directors, along with the yearly assessment and financial statements, in accordance with the accountant and budgeting regulations in force.

7.9 It shall adopt the technical regulations related to the road, river, sea and railway transportation infrastructure.

7.10 It shall report the emergencies that may arise in the infrastructure at its charge.

7.11 It shall propose to the Directors Board the projects whose construction or maintenance are planned to have their funding come from the contributions produced by appreciation or toll taxes, as well as the latter's locations.

7.12 It shall distribute, by means of resolution, the national contribution of appreciation and establish, in general, the necessary resolutions and acts related with this process.

7.13 It shall appoint, give possession to, remove, promote and incorporate, in accordance with the relevant legal dispositions, the entity's personnel, as well as direct the personnel's administrative activity, dictate the correspondent acts and establish the general policies on these issues.

7.14 It shall create and organize, either permanently or temporarily, committees and work groups required within the organization, in order to ensure its operation.

7.15 It shall make the statute projects and their reforms, and submit them to the approval of the Board of Directors.

7.16 It shall work together with the National Concessions Institute, INCO, to coordinate the delivery of the infrastructure to concess.

7.17 It shall issue the required Administrative acts required in the development of the entity's technical and Administrative activities, in accordance to the dispositions in force.

7.18 It shall lead the disciplinary function in accordance to the Law.

7.19 It shall fulfill any other function imposed on it by legal dispositions and by the Directors Board.