CELESTAVIA is an integrated international multi-development system connecting transportation, agriculture, trade, tourism, health, and education across Colombian territory. It is a 100% electric, suspended-cable aerial transit system that would link the Pacific with the Atlantic and the country’s east with its west, at an estimated total cost of $146,190 million dollars.

CELESTAVIA: Smart infrastructure to connect Colombia’s future

Colombia faces major challenges in connectivity, logistics, and territorial integration that limit the economic, agribusiness, tourism, and social development of large regions of the country. In response to these challenges, CELESTAVIA is established as one of the strategic components of the Route of Progress for Equity and Peace of Colombia macro-project, through a modern national network of suspended aerial cable transport designed to integrate the territory efficiently, sustainably, and with deep respect for natural heritage.

With a projected network of 6,965.4 kilometers, CELESTAVIA will connect agribusiness production centers, cities, municipalities, sea and river ports, airports, industrial parks, logistics platforms, rural areas, and strategic corridors, strengthening national competitiveness and generating new economic and social development opportunities for millions of Colombians.

More than a transportation system, CELESTAVIA constitutes a high-impact national logistics solution that can operate independently or as strategic infrastructure supporting the Atrato–Truandó Interoceanic Canal, or other connection points, facilitating the connection between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through multimodal corridors for passenger and cargo transport. Its modular, scalable, and prefabricated design allows the network to be developed in approximately three years, offering a rapid-implementation alternative to large conventional infrastructure projects and allowing economic and social benefits to reach the country in a considerably shorter timeframe.

Its design responds to the highest environmental sustainability standards. The infrastructure requires minimal ground intervention through support towers generally spaced every 100 meters, or greater distances where topography allows. In ecosystems of special environmental sensitivity — national parks, forest reserves, tropical rainforests, wetlands, mangroves, páramos, canyons, or major rivers — the system can span distances exceeding one kilometer between towers, avoiding direct ground intervention and allowing passage through protected areas without fragmenting ecosystems.

This technological capability preserves biodiversity, protects fauna and flora, conserves biological corridors, maintains ecological connectivity, and respects the natural flow of surface and groundwater, minimizing disturbance to biota and significantly reducing environmental impact compared to traditional roads, which require extensive earthmoving, deforestation, and permanent landscape modification.

By operating entirely on electric power, CELESTAVIA helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions, lower the transportation sector’s carbon footprint, and consolidate an infrastructure model aligned with the principles of sustainable development, climate change adaptation, and the protection of Colombia’s natural resources.

CELESTAVIA is conceived as a national multimodal transportation system fully integrated with highways, rail corridors, sea ports, river ports, airports, logistics platforms, free trade zones, and agribusiness production centers, optimizing the movement of passengers and goods, reducing logistics costs, and strengthening the country’s competitiveness in domestic and international markets.

As a structural component of the Route of Progress for Equity and Peace of Colombia macro-project, CELESTAVIA facilitates the industrialization of agriculture, strengthens food security, drives agribusiness transformation, promotes ecological tourism, boosts regional and international trade, and creates conditions for sustainable economic growth across all regions.

Its implementation represents a powerful tool for social transformation by facilitating access for millions of Colombians to health, education, housing, employment, digital connectivity, markets, culture, and investment opportunities — especially in territories historically excluded or affected by conflict. Regions such as El Plateado, Catatumbo, the Colombian Pacific, the Amazon, the Orinoquía, and other strategic zones will be able to fully integrate into national development through sustainable economic alternatives, strengthening the State’s institutional presence and promoting the consolidation of territorial peace.

CELESTAVIA also drives the creation of new development hubs around its stations, promoting agribusiness parks, logistics centers, tourism complexes, innovation centers, educational institutions, hospitals, regional markets, and new opportunities for public and private investment — generating formal employment, strengthening local economies, and improving communities’ quality of life.

With resilient, clean, efficient, and rapidly-deployable infrastructure, CELESTAVIA represents a new vision of national development: a territorial integration network capable of operating autonomously or as a complement to the Atrato–Truandó Interoceanic Canal, boosting Colombia’s competitiveness as a logistics platform between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and consolidating a growth model based on innovation, sustainability, equity, and peace.

CELESTAVIA is not just an infrastructure project: it is an opportunity to position Colombia, among other countries, as a leader in sustainable holistic transportation and global organic agricultural trade, with an estimated return on investment of 7 to 10 years.

Colombia faces major challenges in connectivity, logistics, and territorial integration that limit the economic, agribusiness, tourism, and social development of large regions of the country. In response to these challenges, CELESTAVIA is established as one of the strategic components of the Route of Progress for Equity and Peace of Colombia macro-project, through a modern national network of suspended aerial cable transport designed to integrate the territory efficiently, sustainably, and with deep respect for natural heritage.

With a projected network of 6,965.4 kilometers, CELESTAVIA will connect agribusiness production centers, cities, municipalities, sea and river ports, airports, industrial parks, logistics platforms, rural areas, and strategic corridors, strengthening national competitiveness and generating new economic and social development opportunities for millions of Colombians.

More than a transportation system, CELESTAVIA constitutes a high-impact national logistics solution that can operate independently or as strategic infrastructure supporting the Atrato–Truandó Interoceanic Canal, or other connection points, facilitating the connection between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through multimodal corridors for passenger and cargo transport. Its modular, scalable, and prefabricated design allows the network to be developed in approximately three years, offering a rapid-implementation alternative to large conventional infrastructure projects and allowing economic and social benefits to reach the country in a considerably shorter timeframe.

Its design responds to the highest environmental sustainability standards. The infrastructure requires minimal ground intervention through support towers generally spaced every 100 meters, or greater distances where topography allows. In ecosystems of special environmental sensitivity — national parks, forest reserves, tropical rainforests, wetlands, mangroves, páramos, canyons, or major rivers — the system can span distances exceeding one kilometer between towers, avoiding direct ground intervention and allowing passage through protected areas without fragmenting ecosystems.

This technological capability preserves biodiversity, protects fauna and flora, conserves biological corridors, maintains ecological connectivity, and respects the natural flow of surface and groundwater, minimizing disturbance to biota and significantly reducing environmental impact compared to traditional roads, which require extensive earthmoving, deforestation, and permanent landscape modification.

By operating entirely on electric power, CELESTAVIA helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions, lower the transportation sector’s carbon footprint, and consolidate an infrastructure model aligned with the principles of sustainable development, climate change adaptation, and the protection of Colombia’s natural resources.

CELESTAVIA is conceived as a national multimodal transportation system fully integrated with highways, rail corridors, sea ports, river ports, airports, logistics platforms, free trade zones, and agribusiness production centers, optimizing the movement of passengers and goods, reducing logistics costs, and strengthening the country’s competitiveness in domestic and international markets.

As a structural component of the Route of Progress for Equity and Peace of Colombia macro-project, CELESTAVIA facilitates the industrialization of agriculture, strengthens food security, drives agribusiness transformation, promotes ecological tourism, boosts regional and international trade, and creates conditions for sustainable economic growth across all regions.

Its implementation represents a powerful tool for social transformation by facilitating access for millions of Colombians to health, education, housing, employment, digital connectivity, markets, culture, and investment opportunities — especially in territories historically excluded or affected by conflict. Regions such as El Plateado, Catatumbo, the Colombian Pacific, the Amazon, the Orinoquía, and other strategic zones will be able to fully integrate into national development through sustainable economic alternatives, strengthening the State’s institutional presence and promoting the consolidation of territorial peace.

CELESTAVIA also drives the creation of new development hubs around its stations, promoting agribusiness parks, logistics centers, tourism complexes, innovation centers, educational institutions, hospitals, regional markets, and new opportunities for public and private investment — generating formal employment, strengthening local economies, and improving communities’ quality of life.

With resilient, clean, efficient, and rapidly-deployable infrastructure, CELESTAVIA represents a new vision of national development: a territorial integration network capable of operating autonomously or as a complement to the Atrato–Truandó Interoceanic Canal, boosting Colombia’s competitiveness as a logistics platform between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and consolidating a growth model based on innovation, sustainability, equity, and peace.

From the Panama Canal to the Colombia and Latin America 2050 Vision

Celestavia as a strategic solution for global transportation, inspired by our Criollo Ideology.

Colombia and Latin America 2050 Vision

Colombia and Latin America hold a historic opportunity to establish themselves as the new strategic axis of world trade. Our privileged geographic location, the richness of our natural resources, human talent, and capacity for innovation allow us to envision a development path that transcends the traditional role of raw-material suppliers and positions us as leaders in infrastructure, technology, and global logistics.

It is in this context that Celestavia emerges — an initiative conceived under the principles of Our Criollo Ideology, understood as a development philosophy based on technological sovereignty, innovation rooted in our own knowledge, sustainable industrialization, regional integration, and the generation of wellbeing for present and future generations.

More than 80% of world trade moves by sea. The sustained growth of the international economy demands increasingly efficient, resilient, and sustainable logistics solutions. Celestavia responds to this challenge through an intelligent, automated, high-capacity land corridor designed to complement major international shipping routes and strengthen the continuity of global trade.

The system is projected to move between 35,000 and 150,000 TEU daily, including dry cargo containers, refrigerated cargo, liquefied natural gas (LNG), fuels, and strategic goods, through an automated, continuous-operation model, at an estimated cost of approximately USD 85 per TEU — offering a highly competitive logistics alternative for international trade.

Celestavia represents far more than an infrastructure project. It constitutes a new development paradigm for Colombia and Latin America, where engineering, artificial intelligence, automation, clean energy, and technological innovation converge to build a logistics system ready for the demands of the 21st century.

The Colombia and Latin America 2050 Vision proposes turning the region into the leading logistics, energy, and industrial platform of the Western Hemisphere through the integration of multimodal corridors, smart ports, rail systems, digital platforms, industrial zones, innovation centers, and automated transportation solutions.

Celestavia is one of the strategic projects within this vision, strengthening connectivity between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and facilitating Latin America’s integration with Asia, North America, Europe, Africa, and the emerging Indo-Pacific markets.

This vision does not seek to replace existing infrastructure, but rather to expand global logistics capacity through complementary solutions that increase the resilience of global supply chains, reduce response times in contingencies, and promote more efficient, secure, and sustainable international trade.

By 2050, Colombia and Latin America can establish themselves as a world center of logistics innovation, smart infrastructure, and technological development — exporting not just goods and natural resources, but also knowledge, engineering, technology, and comprehensive solutions for global transportation.

Colombia: The natural axis of global logistics integration

Colombia is one of the few nations in the world with direct access to both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, a privileged location at the center of the American continent, and one of the planet’s greatest biodiversities. These geographic and environmental advantages, combined with its strategic position between North and South America, make the country the ideal setting to lead a new generation of infrastructure for international trade.

Under the vision of Our Criollo Ideology, Celestavia proposes transforming these natural advantages into a platform for economic, technological, and logistics development of global reach. The system forms a great national integration corridor linking the country’s main borders, productive regions, industrial centers, agricultural zones, sea ports, and foreign-trade platforms, strengthening Colombia’s competitiveness and its connection with Latin America.

Celestavia’s strategic network integrates the northern extreme at Paraguachón and Maicao (La Guajira) with the southern extreme at Rumichaca, the border with Ecuador; and the eastern extreme at Puerto Carreño (Vichada) with the western extreme at Buenaventura (Valle del Cauca), linking the Orinoquía, the Altillanura, the Andean region, the Caribbean, and the Colombian Pacific through an automated, high-capacity transportation system.

This national integration facilitates efficient connections among the main sea ports, airports, free trade zones, industrial parks, logistics centers, energy corridors, and tourist hubs, consolidating a network that strengthens both domestic trade and international supply chains.

Within the framework of the Colombia and Latin America 2050 Vision, Celestavia projects Colombia as the primary logistics bridge of the Western Hemisphere, connecting South American markets with Central America, North America, Europe, Asia, and the Indo-Pacific region through smart infrastructure, automation, artificial intelligence, and sustainable solutions for global transportation.

Reference map of the Celestavia interregional network across Colombian territory.

Celestavia’s rollout in Colombia is structured through a Public-Private Alliance (APP) between the Government of Colombia and the entity formed by Global Genius Trust USA —owner of the Celestavia technology— and Funda A AFI, in its role as fund administrator and community intermediary.

The concession is structured over a 140-meter-wide transportation easement along the route (except in urban areas), for suspended cables, a high-voltage electrical grid, fiber optics, and 5G/6G technology, without affecting the natural environment except at specific tower, station, and commercial-center locations. The economic proposal will define the participation of the Central Government, financiers, transportation associations, and consortiums, with funds of legal origin from private entities and international social and economic development organizations.

In alliance with

Celestavia Co. (USA), owned by Global Genius Trust, together with Funda A AFI Internacional. Open to temporary partnerships with Colombian industry and companies, with assembly in the country’s free trade zones and Colombian basalt as the primary input.

In technical terms, the project begins with the first 8 km of connection, topographic and soil studies, and traffic modeling, followed by testing, supplier selection, and phased construction. Private tenders will be held to select domestic companies, including temporary joint ventures, and foreign companies where the necessary capabilities do not exist within the country. In parallel, an awareness campaign and socioeconomic stratification will move forward to identify community opportunities for participation in tourism, education, health, housing, and new agricultural and industrial businesses.

CELESTAVIA guarantees comprehensive connectivity at every point: passenger and cargo transport, fiber-optic internet, and 5G/6G coverage. With this, it offers an opportunity to transform the movement of people and goods in Colombia with sustainability, environmental respect, efficiency, and social progress — positioning Colombia, among other countries, as a world pioneer in sustainable mobility and international trade. The project contributes to the surplus of municipalities, departments, and territorial authorities, to the appreciation of urban and rural properties along the route, and to peaceful coexistence among communities, benefiting Indigenous, Raizal, and Afro-descendant populations, as well as all social strata of the national territory, laying the foundation for the generation of new wealth.

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