[ENGLISH SUMMARY: Mexico's Secretary of Communications and Transportation has announced the official cancellation of plans to build a mega-port at Punta Colonet south of the U.S.-Mexican border to compete with California ports. The cancellation announcement followed studies showing there was not significant private investment available, as conditions have changed since the project was conceptualized in [...]
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“They’re talking about ports in Mexico being expanded in the years ahead. Those goods, we’d rather not see them go up the congested corridor of Interstate 5 along California’s border or coast. We’d rather see them come up inland, through an area that would be available to carry all this traffic and all [...]
The Punta Colonet port project in Mexico’s Baja California state was “badly planned from the start,” Tomás Cortés, president of the Mexican association of port, maritime and coastal infrastructure (Amip), told BNamericas.
The project was launched for tender in 2008 but later postponed due to the global financial crisis. The transport and communications ministry (SCT) [...]
Several states are coordinating support for the proposed Canamax rail line.
The route would begin at a potential deep-water port in Punta Colonet, Mexico, where goods from Asia would begin their journey to the Valley before being transformed or sorted and moved again.
The Canamex Corridor Project is a joint project of Arizona, Nevada, [...]
Mexico’s seaborne traffic is booming and this has set the stage for the return to the table of the mega-port project, Punta Colonet.
Delayed for some time, the project involves large infrastructure works, such as the building of rail lines which can handle containers. However, it now seems that this is the right time to [...]
Punta Colonet is 120 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border.
According to media reports, Punta Colonet will take advantage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement between countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The Trans-Pacific Partnership will link US markets with Asian exporters, which will allow Mexico to compete with the ports of [...]
Says Mexico’s Secretary for Communications & Transportation
The Mexican government will finally launch in 2011 the tender for construction of the long-delayed mega-port at Punta Colonet, on the country’s Pacific Coast, Secretary of Communications & Transport Juan Francisco Molinar has announced.
Punta Colonet will take advantage of the transpacific trade, linking U.S. markets with Asian [...]
Las Vegas could become the crossroads of the West with a new Interstate 15 corridor study, a proposed Interstate 11 and planned connections to a high-speed rail network, a transportation expert said on Tuesday.
[Infrastructure projects] take on added importance with China’s emergence as the world’s dominant economic power.
China has invested in deep-water ports [...]
Union Pacific officials recently reconfirmed that an earlier statement on a possible rail line between Mexico’s Punta Colonet and the U.S. continues to hold true:
“We had a lot of pushback at the local level, at the state level and at the congressional level,” a Union Pacific spokesperson said. “We had a lot of ‘not [...]
In today’s weekly government activity report, Mexico’s Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources advises that his agency has signed, along with the State of Baja California and the municipality of Ensenada, a “Coordination Agreement in order to lay the groundwork for the implementation of the process leading to the formulation, approval, issuance, execution, evaluation and [...]
Punta Colonet is still a sleepy village, but developers hope to make it one of the largest ports on the Pacific Coast. Click on the photo to see the Los Angeles Times' series.
The Los Angeles Times recently ran a series of photographs and captions online that shed light on the Mexican government’s plans [...]
Mexican plans of winning diverted cargo from US west coast by developing the US$5 billion Punta Colonet terminal has now been postponed as US port congestion becomes a fond memory in the deepening global downturn.
The bidding deadline for 6 million-TEU terminal at Punta Colonet passed last month and the government said it would set [...]
Since the Panama Canal Authority announced plans in 2006 for a third set of locks that can handle ships twice as big as the current locks, the industry has been girding for the potential shift of trans-Pacific shipments to the U.S. East Coast. East Coast ports have spent billions of dollars to dredge channels deep [...]
Punta Colonet has rail possibilities into both California and Arizona.
Management for Mexico’s Punta Colonet project, said today that the backers of the mega-port are sharing with the Mexican government’s communications and transportation agency (the SCT) details about existing railroad crossing points between Baja California and the U.S. The objective is to choose one of [...]
Two loaded freight trains prepare to leave Long Beach. Read the full article in the LA Times by clicking on the photo.
About 40 percent of all goods that the U.S. receives in containers from overseas enter the country through the seaports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. That freight must then move overland [...]
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