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Mexico Freight Transport Report Q1 2009
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Reuters news agency quoted an official at Mexico’s Ministry of Communications and Transport as saying that the winner of the tender to build and operate the planned US$5bn Punta Colonet Pacific coast container port in Baja California would be announced by the end of Q309. Manuel RodrÃ*guez said the concession would be won by the bidder offering to handle the most containers, since selecting by the overall value of investment promised would have been ‘interminable’ to calculate.

The ministry wants the port to have the capacity to handle 5-6mn containers a year, and will receive cargo coming from Asia and largely destined for the US market, relieving the congestion of US West Coast ports. The port will create an estimated 80,000 local jobs, and be linked by freight rail to the US midwest. The entry point to the US has yet to be decided, but is expected to be El Paso, Yuma or Nogales. On current plans Punta Colonet could begin operations in 2012 with capacity to handle 2mn twenty-feet equivalent units (TEUs) annually, and would be handling 6mn TEUs by 2020. RodrÃ*guez had earlier explained that four different concessions are on offer: one for a container terminal; another for basic port infrastructure; another to build two railway lines connecting to the US; and a fourth for the management of the electromagnetic spectrum to operate the trains.

BMI’s newly released Mexico Freight Transport Report notes that with improving intermodal links we are forecasting average annual maritime freight growth of 4.2% per annum (due in part to the increased movement of cargo through Mexican ports to avoid congestion in US ports). Over all modes, Mexican freight growth will average 4.7% in 2009-2013, ahead of GDP expansion of 3.6% a year. BMI concludes that the value of the Mexican transport and communications sector will rise to US$184.6bn by 2013, representing 11.5% of the country’s total GDP.

During the presidential election campaign in 2006, Calderón spoke of trying to emulate the big transport infrastructure investment surges in European economies like Ireland and Spain, which in his view supported their strong growth rates in the first half of this decade. BMI rates Mexico’s regulatory and competitive environments highly in relation to other regional markets. In this report, in fact, we set the country’s overall freight rating score at 51.4 (out of a maximum of 100).

The transport and communications sector employed 1.90mn people, or 4.6% of the labour force, in 2008.

We see that figure rising to 2.08mn by 2013, although as a proportion of the labour force it will remain constant at 4.6%.




Author:
Mike King

The entry point to the US has yet to be decided, but is expected to be El Paso, Yuma or Nogales. On current plans Punta Colonet could begin operations in 2012

Here comes the Trans Texas Corridor . Watch how many west coast ports close . Watch the job loss on the docks as all of that freight is now routed through Mexico to distribution point in the US . A company in Spain has the contract for the corridor and under the contract has sole ownership . All so the corporate greedy can import cheap Chinese goods and to Hell with America .

Our West Cost ports are typically already in situations which limit expansion and the existance of a port alone does not put competitors out of work. A major portion of our northern shipping goes through the St. Lawrence and Canada. Canadian rail in turn has brought shipping to Portland. Colonet is likely to assist export of western coal and ores.

If corporate interests could just bring back slavery we would not need the Chinese.

Sanity must be found in the equation somewhere.

Hardly an appropriate comment Roundabout.

It is as useless to attempt an informed conversation without interruption on ALIPAC as on a subway train.

Richard I'll plead ignorance if you like, but, in my defense, I have nothing against using what little common sense I might possess.

However you take it, I meant what I posted. Extreme to some, somewhat realistic, or perhaps acceptable to others.

It is not reality that sucks. It is reality without morales or ethics that sucks.

Have you ever been to those ports on the west coast?

We are all just wage slaves and they are doing everything in their power to lower the little wages we get. If this continues we'll eventually have to accept the same low wages as IAs.

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Investment in Infrastructure and Real Estate Industry


The global economy is going through difficult times, which will affect the trade mundi and domestic demand for all products.

This program considers an important development in the field of construction, with investment of 2.5 trillion dollars projected in the period between 2007 and 2012, or 422 billion pesos annually until 2012.

Relevant infrastructure like airports, roads, railways, ports, power plants and producing oil and gas, petrochemical, and communication networks are considered in the program. The investments are aimed at enhancing the global competitiveness of Mexico, and consequently opportunities to build new housing markets.

Mexico currently has 26 major ports, and the goal is to invest, both sources of public and private investment, about 71 billion pesos, with the purpose of restoring and expanding existing 22 ports in the Pacific and the Gulf, including Manzanillo, Lázaro Cárdenas, Punta Colonet, Veracruz and Tuxpan, and the creation of five new ports, which would increase the annual potential of 4.0 TEU ocean freight TEUs in 2006 to 7.2 in 2012.

Highway system for the program includes the restoration of the main trade routes of transportation, connecting major cities and ports, as well as building new roads, improvements and development reaching a total of 12.3 thousand kilometers of roads sue investment by 297 billion pesos.

The rail system will receive investments of 49 billion pesos to increase its size from 26.7 to 28.1 thousand kilometers, highlighting the proposed train station in the metropolitan area of Mexico City. As for air transportation, the government plans to improve existing 31 airports and build three new, making a total of 59 billion pesos.

Country's logistics network

Such investments in transport infrastructure are planned to improve the logistics network in the country. Improvements in transport infrastructure investments immediately promote the industrial sector, which in turn requires more manufacturing plants and distribution depots, thus benefiting industrial real estate market.

Additionally, the increased operational efficiencies attracts private investment, resulting in job creation and higher incomes, finally strengthening the residential and commercial property sectors.

Additionally to transportation projects, the National Infrastructure Program planned investments of 283 billion dollars to increase the use of Internet and mobile phones among Mexicans.

Another 380 billion dollars will be invested in power generation and environmental issues related, and finally 379 billion pesos will be used in gas refining and petrochemicals.

Investment in treatment and treatment of waste water indicate opportunities for the residential property sector.

154 billion dollars are predicted for such projects, while 30% of all investments in water treatment concentrated in the Valley of Mexico.
Not coincidentally, this is the area of the country with greater private investment in the residential sector. Investments in oil and gas investments topped the list of over 800 billion pesos. Obviously, time and resource allocation will depend on the current discussions around the issue of energy in Mexico. However, such investments are expected to cause a boom in states around the Gulf of Mexico.

The global economy is going through difficult times, which will affect world trade and domestic demand for all products. During such periods infrastructure investments are welcome, not only by the capital injected into the economy but because they make the country more competitive in the long term.