Overview
- Tacna’s regional government began excavation at the Santa Rosa border complex to cut a 200‑meter trench and build a platform for heavy trucks, with a roughly 30‑day schedule over about 6,000 square meters.
- The layout funnels every vehicle through the same customs and migration checks to stop drivers from skipping inspection and to clear traffic on the Panamericana Sur highway.
- Officials say the project was cleared by Peru’s Foreign Ministry and coordinated with Customs, Migration and the Transport Ministry, with a budget near S/875,485 and new lighting and signage.
- Police maintain a reinforced presence at the site, and Peru and Chile continue to use a binational migration committee to keep border operations on track at the Tacna–Arica corridor.
- The works proceed as Chile rolls out its Border Shield plan in the north with trenches about three meters deep, fences up to five meters, surveillance sensors, drones and roughly 3,000 personnel.