Major Projects in Mexico are large-scale projects of national importance such as:
•Airports, including new runways, runway extensions and airport terminals.
Power stations, including thermal, nuclear, environmental issues and renewable energy sources.

• Overhead electricity lines.
• Nuclear facilities, including facilities for fuel fabrication, spent fuel reprocessing, waste storage or disposal.
• Ports and piers.
• Intermodal terminals.
• Dams and reservoirs.
• Major roads.
• Railway lines.
• Oil and gas facilities, including extraction facilities, pipelines, terminals, storage facilities and refineries as well as oil and gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects.

Chemical works.

• Water and wastewater projects, including financing, regulatory, privatizations and permitting requirements.
• Transport and infrastructure.

Major Projects in Mexico Report

The Major Projects report is prepared by the Commercial Specialists responsible for each industry sector in Mexico and published every quarter. This multiple-sector analysis report provides information regarding the market for equipment and services that are used in the Major Infrastructure Projects throughout Mexico. It includes valuable data regarding the procurements made in the most important industry sectors. To obtain the full text of this report please contact us.

Transportation & Infrastructure 

The transportation sector is one of the most dynamic and promising in Mexico and will offer many opportunities to do business for suppliers of transportation equipment and services.   

Newly elected Mexican President Felipe Calderon has announced the decision of the new government to undertake the necessary actions/projects to have an efficient transportation sector, with  modern infrastructure and equipment, and services, that compete at the international level. Some projects to be developed in this presidential period have already been announced.  To obtain the full text of this report please contact us.

Railroads

From 1996 to 2005, railroad operators invested over USD 2.3 billion to improve infrastructure and purchase equipment to make the railroads more efficient and competitive. The railroad participation in national cargo movement increase from 12.4 percent in 1995 to 18.4 percent in 2005. However, railroad revolution is just starting. The 7 operators are developing strategic plans to increase market participation, that will require significant investments. For 2006, railroad operators have already announced some investment figures that in total will accumulate over 260 million dollars. To obtain the full text of this report please contact us.

The Port of Manzanillo

The Port of Manzanillo, located on the Pacific coast, is one of the busiest ports in Mexico, with impressive growth over the last 5 years. The expansion of the Port of Manzanillo has received priority in the National Program for Infrastructure announced by President Calderon in July 2007.  To obtain the full text of this report please contact us.

The Port of Lazaro

The Port of Lazaro Cardenas is the only port in Mexico with capacity to receive ultra large container vessels of up to 12,500 TEUs. The port is hoping to capitalize on the overcrowding of U.S. west coast ports by offering a viable alternative for shipping products into the central United States.  To do so, the port is developing infrastructure projects and making agreements with carriers and transportation companies to become an intermodal corridor to receive Asian containers going to the U.S.  To obtain the full text of this report please contact us.

Ports Projects-Gulf Coast

The Mexican port sector is in a very dynamic stage in its development.  Mexican ports must improve efficiency and expand capacity to respond to the increasing demands generated by international trade. Mexico’s Gulf Coast ports face a challenge to respond to the demand generated by NAFTA trade and to compete in price and delivery time with the truck transportation industry. All Mexican ports on the Gulf Coast have projects to expand facilities, and to increase efficiency in the next 5-10 years.  To obtain the full text of this report please contact us.

Port Projects- Pacific Coast

The Mexican port sector is in a very dynamic stage in its development.  Mexican ports must improve efficiency and expand capacity to respond to the increasing demands generated by international trade. Mexico’s Pacific Coast ports are especially interested in creating cost-effective alternatives to bypass the saturated U.S. ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles and San Francisco.  There are numerous projects designed to move containerized shipments from China and other Asian sources through Mexico and into the central United States.  To obtain the full text of this report please contact us.

Puerto Chiapas

The Port of Chiapas is located on the Pacific coast, in the Southern State of Chiapas. The port used to be mainly for fisheries and light agricultural cargo. Now,  authorities are pushing the port modernization and expansion with a goal of becoming an important cruise ship stop and minerals and containerized cargo terminal.  To obtain the full text of this report please contact us.

Port Projects- Salina Cruz

The Mexican Government is promoting a project to build an intermodal corridor between the ports of Salina Cruz, Oaxaca on the Pacific coast and Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz on the Gulf coast.  The intention is to offer an alternative for inter-oceanic traffic now using the Panama Canal.  To obtain the full text of this report please contact us.

Port of Altamira

Private operators of the Port of Altamira in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, will invest over 140 million dollars in 2006 to build infrastructure and purchase equipment.  To obtain the full text of this report please contact us.

Procurement Practices in Mexico

Understanding of the procurement practices in Mexico is very important and American companies are invited to review the content of Mexican Government Procurement document, which has been prepared by the Commercial Service on Mexican Government Procurement Practices.

Success Story

SAIC is selected to install an Integrated Container Information System at the Port of Veracruz

The U.S. Commercial Service in Mexico worked closely with public and private sector partners to support the Port of Veracruz expansion project. In 2002, the Port received a US$ 408,000 grant from the U.S. Trade Development Agency for a project feasibility study to add more throughput capacity to this key maritime facility. As a result of these activities, including sustained support from U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza and his business development team, the port acquired a US$5.8 million Integrated Container Information System (ICIS), a non-intrusive imaging inspection system from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). SAIC is located in San Diego, CA and is a leading provider of scientific, engineering, system integration, and technical services and solutions.  Click here to read the full text.

Further Information

To obtain further information, please click here to contact Adrian Orta, Major Project Coordinator of the US Commercial Service, US Embassy Mexico.