In a visit to the Mexican state of Sonora over the weekend, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced construction will soon begin on a major port modernization project.
During Sheinbaum’s visit to the city of Guaymas on the coast of the Gulf of California, she and Sonoran Gov. Alfonso Durazo touted billions of dollars of private investment planned to modernize the city’s shipping port.
“It's a very important investment of 130 billion pesos, which is finally starting this year; in the first quarter of this year,” Sheinbaum said. “That's the commitment we made here with the investors and the team.”
The majority of the investment will go toward liquified natural gas infrastructure — designed to receive gas from Texas and ship it both regionally and to Asian countries. Sheinbaum announced construction is set to begin on the long-planned project this year and permits will be issued within the next month.
The major port modernization project also includes expanding the port’s capacity, which officials said at the event Sunday said would lead to a higher capacity to export goods from Sonora into Arizona.
On her weekend-long tour of the state, Sheinbaum also visited the Sonoran town of Bavispe, where she officially inaugurated a more than 80 mile stretch of highway running through the mountains to the town of Nuevo Casas Grandes in Chihuahua.
In her visit to Guaymas, Sheinbaum told reporters that her government planned a humanitarian aid delivery to Cuba this week that includes food and supplies. That comes amid pressure from the Trump administration, which says it will put tariffs on countries that continue to ship oil to Cuba.
“We are exploring all diplomatic avenues because, as we have said, it is a fundamental humanitarian aid issue for the island,” Sheinbaum said.
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The United States has ordered tariffs on countries that continue to ship oil to the island. Mexico has described the shipments as a humanitarian measure. -
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Mexico has not been clear about how much oil it currently ships to Cuba. The island nation relies on allies, including Mexico, for its crude oil needs.
