The Yucatecan export sector described as excellent news the announcement made by governor-elect Joaquín Díaz Mena, of the Morena-PT-PVEM coalition, about the change in the expansion project of the deep-sea port of Progreso, which would double the land platform from 40 to 80 (or even 90) hectares.
The news was given by the Morena member and the virtual president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, and immediately Alejandro Guerrero Lozano, president of the Association of Export Maquiladoras of Yucatán (Index), said that this modification for the improvement and expansion of the port infrastructure is possible due to the new political panorama of Yucatán, since both the State government and the Presidency of the Republic will be in the hands of the same party.
“For the export sector, it was very good news. In meetings, we had with Díaz Mena during the campaign and after he was elected, he had told us that the 40 hectares planned by the current state government was only the first stage of the expansion,” Guerrero Lozano said in an interview.
“Now that the political panorama has changed, the plan is more ambitious and more beneficial for foreign trade. With so many international companies that want to come to Yucatán and the project of the two industrial parks for well-being, there could be a collapse in the port of Progreso.”
“The news that they will double the land platform and that they will build the rail network of the Mayan Train for cargo to Progreso was music to our ears,” said the business leader.
“Expanding the land platform to more than double, deepening the draft and the navigation channel will allow more cargo and tourist ships of a larger size to arrive and for more companies dedicated to foreign trade to set up,” he added.
Guerrero Lozano said that, as far as he knows, he will first begin dredging to have a wider navigation channel and a deeper draft in the deepwater port.
“It is something that the private sector has been asking for for years. It was important to hear from the president-elect that they were going to build the Mayan Cargo Train to Progreso in two years. The development of the two industrial parks goes hand in hand in that period,” he added.
“Yucatán will continue with its good moment of economic development, I believe that better times are coming and if we maintain favorable security conditions, a greater number of international companies will look to the state to set up shop,” he predicted.
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