Interoceanic Hall, “a venture with an incredible future,” says AMLO

The Interoceanic Hall of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT) “is a venture that may have an incredible future,” because it won’t be a complement to the Panama Canal, however slightly one other different to attach the 2 oceans, acknowledged President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

He revealed that there’s curiosity from some buyers in constructing a monitor, in elements parallel to the present line, with a view to cut back the journey occasions for freight trains to 3 or 4 hours from the between six and 7 hours which can be made in the present day from the port of Salina Cruz, within the Pacific, to that of Coatzacoalcos, within the Gulf of Mexico.

“It’s a good venture, there may be even curiosity in constructing one other highway from Salina Cruz to Coatzacoalcos, subsequent to the one which already exists,” stated the president in his convention on the Nationwide Palace.

He indicated that the present highway was constructed within the occasions of Porfirio Díaz and was rehabilitated through the present federal administration as a part of the CIIT venture, however the route consists of many curves as a result of greater than a century in the past the know-how to make tunnels or tunnels didn’t exist. viaducts, which if undertaken in the present day would cut back the journey time of the railways.

“It’s to restrict it (the attainable new route), so as an alternative of doing six or seven hours, doing three or 4, pure container loading (…) This venture goes to be developed, there’s a lot, lots of curiosity, I am unable to speak extra, however these are probably the most desired tasks,” stated the top of the Government.

He recalled that progress has already been made within the venture with the modernization of the Salina Cruz and Coatzacoalcos ports, the breakwater within the first, the upcoming set up of a number of improvement poles, the rehabilitation of the highway and the development of recent bridges for the passage of trains, amongst others. “It does have lots of future,” he remarked.