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Communications and Transportation Secretariat’s Investment Portfolio. November 2010. Table of contents. Mexico at a glance.…….…………………. 3 Mexico is an investment destination...…..4 Real facts………….……...…………..……5 Public-Private Partnerships………………6 Consolidating of capital markets…………7
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Communications and Transportation Secretariat’s Investment Portfolio November 2010
Table of contents Mexico at a glance.…….………………….3 Mexico is an investment destination...…..4 Real facts………….……...…………..……5 Public-Private Partnerships………………6 Consolidating of capital markets…………7 Infrastructure achievements…….........….8 Road Infrastructure………………………10
Table of contents Railroad Bypasses.………...………..…..42 Airports……………………………….……48 Suburban Railway...………………..........51 Ports….……………………………….…...54 Communications………………….....…...63 Project leaders and contact details..…...66
Mexico at a glance • Mexico’s population: over 106.8 million inhabitants (11th largest in the world). • Mexico’s territory: over 2 million km2 (15th largest in the world). • Mexico’s Annual GDP: US$1.08 trillion (13th largest in the world). • Latin America’s GDP (over 4 trillion dollars) is comparable to that of China, of which Mexico and Brazil contribute with about 64%. • Mexico has the second largest annual GDP per capita in Latin America (9,900 USD), just below Chile (10,110 USD). • Annual growth in the communications and transportation sector in Mexico is 2% higher than annual GDP growth over the period 1998-2010 e/ Expected Source: National Institute of Statistics and Geography
Mexico is an investment destination • The fastest routes from the Pacific to the mid-west and the east coast of the US are the ports of Manzanillo and/or Lázaro Cárdenas. • Mexico is connected by sea to 535 destinations in 141 countries, with around 100 shipping lines which serve Mexican ports. • Mexico’s transport infrastructure is very well placed for the purposes of international trade. Punta Colonet Manzanillo Lázaro Cárdenas • Mexico moves high volumes of freight • Amongst OECD countries Mexico has the 4th highest volume of freight transport by road and the 3rd highest by rail.
Real facts • Due to its macroeconomic stability and strong institutions Mexico has become an attractive place for foreign capital. • Ranked investment grade by both Moody’s and S&P. • México has increased its transparency in the business environment. • According to the World Bank: Doing Business Report, México ranks 35 amongst 182 countries as a safe place to invest. • México climbed 13 steps compared to last year’s report in the field of dealing with construction permits. Source: http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/mexico# Source: Doing Business 2011. México
Public-Private Partnerships • Mexico has been involved in national-level transport PPP projects for interstate roads, airports and seaports. • Mexico has revised the law of acquisitions and public-works to improve the bidding processes and introduce specific arbitration options for dispute resolution. • Facilitating Private Services Provision Schemes (PPS) • The government is promoting a new PPP legislation and several regulatory reforms to offer more certainty for investment in infrastructure Presidential Bill for a new PPP legislation* * Submitted to Congress in November 2009
Consolidating of capital markets • Important source of funding for infrastructure projects • Banobras, the Mexican National Bank, offers innovative financial schemes • Developmentbank • Offering a variety of financial alternatives that help develop public infrastructure projects. • Trustee of theNationalInfrastructureFund • Promoting national and international private sector participation in the development of strategic projects NationalInfrastructureFund Banobras
Infrastructure achievements • In 2010 through the PPP scheme the government invested a total of US$ 2,383.4 million dollars in Rails, Ports and Airports. • Between 2007-2010 the Federal government invested a total of US$4,533.4 million in transportation and sea ports. • The Mexican government invested a total of US 15,597 million dollars in improving its roads (development, modernization and maintenance) • Port Infrastructure • A total of 2.3 billion USD have been invested on the Maritime and Port subsectors • We are investing in: • Ports (Manzanillo, Veracruz, Coatzacoalcos and Mazatlán), • Specialized Container Terminals and industrial plants (Altamira, Tampico, Lázaro Cárdenas, Manzanillo and Guaymas) • The construction of a Federal Electricity Commission’s Liquefied Gas Terminal (New Port of Cuyutlán) • Improving port access and building new docks (Manzanillo, Mazatlán, Guaymas and Puerto Vallarta) • Mazatlán terminal II • Albatros Bridge
MAZATLAN BYPASS • Length: 38.0 km • Highway corridor: Mexico – Nogales with a branch to Tijuana • Investment: 121.3 million dollars • Location: State of Sinaloa • Expected traffic: 6,500 veh/day • PPP model: Asset Utilization (North Pacific Package) • Bidding process information: Delivery of proposals during the 4th quarter of 2009 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description: The project is located north east of Mazatlan and constitutes the southern end of the Mazatlan-Culiacan highway. The Mazatlan bypass will be a 4 lane highway that will connect Villa Union with the north of the Mazatlan metropolitan area. It will also include links to the Airport and to Mazatlan downtown. • Benefits: The bypass will produce considerable savings in travel time and vehicle operation costs, both for local users and tourists that arrive in Mazatlan airport as well as for long distance journeys. • Regional Impact: The bypass will foster tourist development on the northern zone of Mazatlan offering a direct link between this area and the city airport. Additionally it will offer a high quality connection for the traffic coming from the Mazatlan-Durango and Tepic-Villa Union highways to the north of Sinaloa and Sonora.
CULIACAN BYPASS • Description: The project is located southwest of the city of Culiacan and will connect the Mazatlan-Culiacan and Culiacan-Los Mochis highways with a new four lane road. • Benefits: The construction of the Culiacan bypass will ensure the continuity of the long range traffic that will no longer travel through inner city roads. The bypass will produce savings in journey times and vehicle operating costs and will improve the level of service offered to local users as well as to long distance journeys. • Regional Impact: The bypass will restrain the long range traffic through Culiacan and will give continuity to traffic flows on the main highway corridor in the northwest region, which will contribute to the tourist development and the competitiveness of the agricultural and industrial exports of the region. • Length: 22.0 km • Highway corridor: Mexico – Nogales with a branch to Tijuana • Investment: 121.60 million dollars • Location: State of Sinaloa • Expected traffic: 5,300 veh/day • PPT model: Asset Utilization (North Pacific Package) • Bidding process information: Delivery of proposals during the 4th quarter of 2009 • Construction duration: 15 months
REYNOSA BYPASS • Length: 37.0 km • Highway corridor: Mazatlan-Matamoros • Investment: 91.7 million dollars • Location: State of Tamaulipas • Expected traffic: 5,000 veh/day • PPP model: Asset Utilization (Northeast Package) • Bidding process information: Delivery of proposals during the 4th quarter of 2009 • Construction duration: 18 months • Description: The project consists of finishing the construction of the Reynosa bypass that starts to the west of Reynosa, on the untolled Monterrey-Reynosa road, and ends at the Matamoros-Reynosa road, in the junction with the highway of the same name. It is a 37 km two lane toll road. • Benefits: To prevent freight traffic through downtown Reynosa, to reduce vehicle operating costs and journey times, and to provide faster and better access to the international Reynosa-Pharr international bridge. The ring road will have a traffic control center that will offer monitoring and information services to users to increase safety and the service level of the system. • Regional Impact: Together with the construction of other projects in the region, the bypass will contribute to the integration and balance in the distribution of traffic flows between the international bridges system Reynosa-Pharr, Reynosa-Hidalgo, Reynosa-Anzalduas and Río Bravo-Donna, which will strengthen the transportation infrastructure for international trade.
GUADALAJARA BYPASS • Length: 111 km • Highway corridor: Mexico – Nogales with a branch to Tijuana • Investment: 414.3 million dollars • Location: State of Jalisco • Expected traffic: 7.300 veh/day • PPP model: Asset Utilization (South Pacific Package) • Bidding process information: Delivery of proposals in December 2009 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description : The bypass will prevent long distance journeys through Guadalajara’s urban area. The project consists of three sections: the stretch I starts at the junction of Zapotlanejo, and ends at the junction of Chapala with the Guadalajara – Chapala road; at this point starts the stretch II, which ends at the junction of Santa Cecilia with the Guadalajara- Colima highway; finally, at this spot starts stretch III, which ends at the junction of El Arenal with the Guadalajara-Tepic highway. • Benefits: The bypass will produce savings in journey times and vehicle operating costs. It will improve driving conditions in the Guadalajara urban area and will reduce air pollution levels. It will also guarantee faster flows and safer driving conditions for long distance journeys. • Regional Impact: The bypass will provide Guadalajara with an outer highway belt that will supply a valuable platform for local industrial plants and distribution centers, which will in turn contribute to the economic activity, employment and competitiveness of the western region of the country.
TEPIC – COMPOSTELA HIGHWAY • Length: 26.0 km • Highway corridor: Not part of a corridor • Investment: 131.2 million dollars • Location: State of Nayarit • Expected traffic: 2,800 veh/day • PPP model: Asset Utilization (South Pacific Package) • Bidding process information: Delivery of proposals in December 2009 • Construction duration: 18 months • Description: The project consists of the construction of a 26 km two lane highway, between the urban zone of Tepic, Nayarit, and the new highway to access Puerto Vallarta. • Benefits: This section will be a high specification road that will connect Tepic and Compostela, therefore allowing savings in journey times and operating costs. The highway will improve the level of service offered to users by allowing a fast flow and safe driving conditions. The highway will improve the level of service offered to users by allowing faster traffic flows and safer driving conditions. • Regional Impact: The highway will ease the access to the tourist destinations of the Nayarit Riviera and Puerto Vallarta, from Tepic and points located at the north of this city, which will promote tourist development and the creation of jobs in the region.
TEPIC BYPASS • Length: 33.5 km • Highway corridor: Mexico – Nogales with a branch to Tijuana • Investment: 115.1million dollars • Location State of Nayarit • Expected traffic: 11,270 veh/day • PPP model: Asset Utilization (South Pacific Package) • Bidding process information: Delivery of proposals in December 2009 • Construction duration: 18 months • Description: The project consists of the construction of a two lane road stretch, at the north of the city of Tepic, which will give continuity to traffic flows through the Mexico-Nogales corridor with a branch to Tijuana. The bypass starts at the crossing with the federal road Guadalajara-Tepic and ends at the junction with the Tepic-Villa Union highway. • Benefits: The ring road will produce savings in journey times and vehicle operating costs. It will also benefit the residents of Tepic, by avoiding the long range traffic through the urban road system. • Regional Impact: By making the long range traffic between the center and northwestern region of the country easier, the bypass will increase agricultural, tourist and commercial activities in the west of the country.
MORELIA BYPASS • Length: 58.0 km • Highway corridor: Manzanillo-Tampico with a branch to L. Cárdenas and Ecuandureo • Investment: 147.7 million dollars • Location: State of Michoacan • Expected traffic: 5,000 veh/day • PPP model: Asset Utilization (Michoacan Package) • Probable bidding process date: Second half of 2009 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description: The project consists of the construction of a two lane bypass at the western side of Morelia which will give continuity to the traffic traveling on the Patzcuaro-Uruapan-Lazaro Cardenas highway from the north and center of the country to Michoacan and Guerrero coasts, by enabling the vehicles to avoid crossing the capital of that state. It starts at the Tarimbaro junction, at the Maravatio Zapotlanejo highway and ends at the outskirts of Patzcuaro. • Benefits: The bypass will allow important savings in journey times and vehicle operating costs for journeys with origin or destination in Lazaro Cardenas and in the Guerrero shore. It will also enable freight traffic to avoid travelling through the road system of Morelia. • Regional Impact: The project will improve the access conditions to the port of Lazaro Cardenas and the tourist destinations along the cost of Guerrero, especially from central and eastern Mexico.
PATZCUARO – URUAPAN HIGHWAY • Length: 56.0 km • Highway corridor: Manzanillo-Tampico with a branch to L. Cárdenas. • Investment: 136.2 million dollars • Location: State of Michoacan • Expected traffic: 8,600veh/day • PPP model: Asset Utilization (Michoacan Package) • Bidding process information: Second half of 2009 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description: The project comprises widening to four lanes the 56 km Patzcuaro-Uruapan highway in the state of Michoacan, which today carries 8,600 vehicles per day, including 13% of heavy vehicles. • Benefits: Safety will be improved, and journey times and vehicle operating costs will be reduced. • Regional Impact: The project will expand the capacity of the existing infrastructure to make it suitable for the long range traffic that travels between Lazaro Cardenas and the center of the country and will help consolidate the touristic potential of the state of Michoacan.
URUAPAN BYPASS • Length: 25.2 km • Highway corridor: Manzanillo-Tampico with a branch to L. Cardenas and Ecuandureo • Investment: 74 million dollars • Location: State of Michoacan • Expected traffic: 5,000 veh/day • PPP model: Asset Utilization (Michoacan Package) • Bidding process information: Second half of 2009 • Construction duration: 18 months • Description: The project consists of the construction of a two lane bypass to improve the flow of vehicles from the center of the state to the Zamora area and the northeast points of Michoacan. • Benefits: Reduction in journey times between Morelia, Lazaro Cardenas, Apatzingan and the north points of Uruapan, by avoiding to drive through the urban zone of Uruapan. • Regional Impact : Improvement of access to the port of Lazaro Cardenas and to the agricultural production zones of southwestern Michoacan through a direct link with the northern area of the state and the region of Guadalajara.
TUXPAN-TAMPICO HIGHWAY AND THE TAMPICO BYPASS • Length: 235.0 km • Highway corridor:Veracruz-Monterrey with a branch to Matamoros • Investment: 625.4 million dollars • Location: States of Tamaulipas and Veracruz • Expected traffic: 4,500 veh/day • PPP model: Public investment paid with non budgetary resources • Bidding process information: Second half of 2010 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description: The project consists of the construction of a 246 km four lane highway, including the construction of the bypasses of Tampico and Tuxpan, which will improve driving conditions along the Veracruz-Matamoros corridor, as well as the access from the south and southeast up to the northern border of the country. • Benefits: Its construction will give continuity to the long range traffic flows, reduce transportation costs and improve the level of service. The Macro ring road of Tampico will give continuity to the long range traffic at the northern border of the country, preventing its crossing through the urban area of Tampico. • Regional Impact: The project will boost the tourist, industrial and commercial activities of the northern area of the Gulf of Mexico shore and will turn it into a highly competitive region due to its logistics and communication potential.
GUADALAJARA COLIMA HIGHWAY • Length: 60.0 km • Highway corridor: Manzanillo-Tampico with a branch to L. Cardenas and Ecuandureo • Investment: 306.9 million dollars • Location: State of Jalisco • Expected traffic: 7,000 veh/day • PPP model: Public investment to be paid with non budgetary resources • Bidding process information: Second half of 2010 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description: The project consists widening to four lanes of the Guadalajara-Colima highway, which includes the construction of a 10.5 meter two-lane separated parallel body between Sayula and the boundaries of the states of Jalisco and Colima. The project also includes widening the bridges Atenquique I and Atenquique II. • Benefits: The widening of the highway will produce important savings in vehicle operating costs and journey times. The construction of a parallel body to the existing one will increase the safety and comfort of the journeys, and will ensure that the port of Manzanillo has an efficient connection to the center of the country. • Regional Impact: Besides contributing to the modernization of the corridor Manzanillo-Tampico, the project will support the consolidation of Manzanillo as an important industrial port and tourist destination and will facilitate the economic activity of the Colima-Ciudad Guzman corridor.
INDIOS VERDES – SANTA CLARA LINK • Length: 6.0 km • Highway corridor: Mexico - Tuxpam • Investment: 305.7 million dollars • Location: Mexico City and the State of Mexico • Expected traffic: 30,000 veh/day • PPP model: Public investment to be paid with non budgetary resources • Bidding process information: First half of2010 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description: The project consists of the construction of a 6 km eight lane road, from Insurgentes Avenue (between the streets of Montevideo and Ticoman) in Mexico City (Federal District) to the Santa Clara junction , in the State of Mexico, where the Mexico-Pachuca highway starts. The project includes the construction of a junction in each end of the stretch, two bridges and a tunnel along the right of way of the national electricity company. • Benefits: The project will improve traffic conditions between Mexico City, Pachuca, Tulancingo and the northern exits of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area, reducing journey times and offering an alternative route. The project will also contribute to reducing the emission of pollutants in northern Mexico City. • Regional Impact: It will eliminate an important bottleneck in the northern access to Mexico City. It will also promote the economic and social development of the northeast of the State of Mexico, the center and east of Hidalgo, the north of Puebla and Veracruz and the south of Tamaulipas by providing them with a direct access to the capital city of the country.
ESTACION DON – NOGALES HIGHWAY • Length: 468.5 km • Highway corridor: Mexico – Nogales with a branch to Tijuana • Investment: 267.5 million dollars • Location: State of Sonora • Expected traffic: 6,300 veh/day • PPP model: Public investment to be paid with non budgetary resources • Bidding process information: Starting in 2010 • Construction duration: 36 months • Description: The project consists of modernizing the Estacion Don-Nogales highway, widening its two bodies to 10.50 meters, including structures and drainage works, as well as reconstructing the pavement where the level of service is not satisfactory. • Benefits: The modernization of the highway will benefit the residents of Sonora, since the highway is the north-south communication axis of the state. It will increase traffic safety and reduce vehicle operating costs. • Regional Impact: Besides its positive contribution to communicating the different regions of Sonora, the highway will reduce transportation costs for agricultural products to be exported from the south of Sonora and north of Sinaloa to the United States.
CHAMAPA-LECHERIA HIGHWAY • Description: The project consists of widening selected stretches of the existing 27 km six lane highway, as well as improving access points and toll booths to improve service conditions offered to users. • Benefits: To improve quality of service provided to users, considering the increase in demand, and to reduce the amount of time spent on toll payments. • Regional Impact: To ease congestion at the west of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area, to reduce the loss of man-hours, and to lower the emission of pollutants. • Length: 27.0 km • Highway corridor: Outside corridors • Investment: 91.7 million dollars • Location: State of Mexico • Expected traffic: 30,000 veh/day • PPP model: Public investment to be paid with non budgetary resources • Bidding process information: Second half of 2010 • Construction duration: 24 months
ACAPULCO BYPASS • Length: 67.7 km. • Highway corridor: Acapulco-Cuernavaca • Investment: 264.7million dollars • Location: State of Guerrero • Expected traffic: 1400 veh/day in the western section and 150 veh/day in the eastern section of the bypass • PPP model: Public investment to be paid with non budgetary resources • Bidding process information: Second half of 2010 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description: The project consists of communicating the Cuernavaca-Acapulco highway with destinations along the coast of Guerrero. This includes two 2-lane bypasses, to the west and east of the Cuernavaca –Acapulco highway. • Benefits: The construction of these ring roads will allow the development of new tourist attractions along the shore of the state of Guerrero. • Regional Impact: Both bypasses will boost the touristic development of Guerrero and will encourage economic activities and job creation in this state.
LA PERA – CUAUTLA HIGHWAY • Length: 27.0 km • Highway corridor: Acapulco-Veracruz • Investment: 65.2 million dollars • Location: State of Morelos • Expected traffic: 9,700 veh/day • PPP model: Public investment to be paid with non budgetary resources • Bidding process information: Second half of 2010 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description: The project consists of widening the 27 kilometers La Pera-Cuautla toll highway from 10 to 21 meters to host four lanes with lateral road shoulders. The modernization includes the expansion of the toll booth zone and the construction of two junctions to make the access to Tepotzotlan and Oaxtepec easier. • Benefits: The modernization of this highway will reduce journey times and improve the levels of safety for users that travel to the spas and tourist centers of the east region of Morelos, especially during weekends, and will contribute to a larger tourist activity in this region. • Regional Impact: The suggested work will eliminate a bottleneck in the access from Cuernavaca and Mexico City to the recreational centers of the east of Morelos and at the same time will facilitate access to Cuautla and other points in the south of the state of Puebla.
MITLA –TEHUANTEPEC HIGHWAY • Length: 169.0 km • Highway corridor: Puebla – Oaxaca –Hidalgo City • Investment: 557.9 million dollars • Location: State of Oaxaca • Expected traffic: 2,000 veh/day • PPP model: Service Rendering Project (PPS by its acronym in Spanish) • Bidding process information: Delivery of proposals during the 4th quarter of 2009 • Construction duration: 40 months • Description: To widen, build, exploit operate, maintain the 169 km Mitla-Tehuantepec federal road located in the state of Oaxaca as a concession through Private Service Contracts. • Benefits: The highway will connect the city of Oaxaca with the Tehuantepec Isthmus and nearby regions. It will foster economic development, having high impact in the region and in the communities located in its influence zones and in the regions it connects. This project will benefit the Isthmus of Tehuantepec zone, which has a population of 674 thousand inhabitants, to whom it will provide a high specification access to the capital of Oaxaca. • Regional Impact: It will allow better connectivity between the industrial port of Salina Cruz and the center of the state of Oaxaca. In addition, it will improve the access to the zone of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, as well as to the Mixe zone of the northeast of Oaxaca. Finally, it will provide a high specification link to the trans isthmus corridor.
CABO SAN LUCAS – SAN JOSE DEL CABO HIGHWAY • Length: 44.0 km • Highway corridor: Trans Peninsula of Baja California • Investment: 191.1 million dollars • Location: South Baja California • Expected traffic: 7,000 veh/day • PPP model: Concession with Assets • Bidding process information: First half of 2010 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description: The project consists of building a new 44 km four lane road along the tourist corridor of Los Cabos. It includes the construction of a bypass from Cabo San Lucas to connect the Todos Santos-Cabo San Lucas road with the ring road of San Jose del Cabo. It will include two branches towards the coast, to give access to intermediate spots between Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo. • Benefits: The ring road will speed up the communication between San Jose del Cabo and Los Cabos to improve access to Los Cabos airport. Since it will be constructed in superior heights than the current route, it will release lands with beach fronts for tourist use, which will increase the attraction of Los Cabos as a high quality tourist destination. • Regional Impact: This project will foster the economic and touristic development of the south of the state, including the zones located north from Cabo San Lucas, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
PALMILLAS-APASEO EL GRANDE HIGHWAY • Length: 80.0 km • Highway corridor: Mexico -Ciudad Juarez • Investment: 245.5 million dollars • Location: States of Queretaro and Guanajuato • Expected traffic 8,000 veh/day • PPP model Concession with Assets • Bidding process dinformation: Second half of 2010 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description: The project consists of building a four lane highway for long journeys towards the west of the country. This new road would function as an alternate route to the Mexico-Queretaro highway in its Palmillas-Queretaro stretch. • Benefits: The road will speed up journeys between the center and the west of the country by avoiding passing through the corridor San Juan del Rio-Queretaro and the city of Queretaro, and at the same time will contribute to reduce congestion in both corridor as well as in urban roads. • Regional Impact: The highway will significantly shorten trip distance between the south zone of the Bajio and the Mexico City Metropolitan Area. In conjunction with the Mexico City Metropolitan Area northern bypass, it will generate new routes in the center of the country and promote the creation of new economic activities.
LAGUNA VERDE – GUTIERREZ ZAMORA HIGHWAY • Length: 126.0 km • Highway corridor: Veracruz-Monterrey • Investment: 420.4 million dollars • Location: State of Veracruz • Expected traffic: 7,000 veh/day • PPP model: Concession with Assets • Bidding process information: Second half of 2010 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description: The project consists of the construction of a 126 km four lane highway along the Gulf of Mexico coast, in the state of Veracruz, in order to improve the communication between Veracruz, Tuxpan and Tampico. • Benefits: The project will speed up journeys along the coast corridor and towards the north of the state; it will promote economic and touristic development of the area and will reduce accidents in the region. • Regional Impact: The highway will facilitate the communication along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico and will improve the connectivity between the south-southeast region of Mexico and the north of the country. It will also promote the development of the height ports of Veracruz, Tuxpan and Tampico-Altamira.
CHAMPOTON-VILLA MADERO HIGHWAY • Length: 18.0 km • Highway corridor: Puebla-Progreso • Investment: 1.76 million dollars • Location: State of Campeche • Expected traffic: 4,900 veh/day • PPP model: Concession with Assets • Bidding process information: Second half of 2010 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description: The project consists of widening the existing four lane highway in the stretch Champoton-Villa Madero, so that it includes two parallel sections of 10.50 meters wide each. • Benefits: The project will increase safety and quality of service and will help promote the touristic development of the region. • Regional Impact: The project will contribute to strengthen and diversify the economy of Campeche, allowing the exploitation of its tourism potential. It will also facilitate the communication among the main population centers along the Gulf of Mexico.
CHAMPOTON BYPASS • Length: 17.0 km • Highway corridor: Puebla-Progreso • Investment: 38.2 million dollars • Location: State of Campeche • Expected traffic: 2,500 veh/day • PPP model: Concession with Assets • Bidding process information: Second half of 2010 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description: The project forms part of the corridor Puebla-Progreso and consists of the construction of the 13 km Champoton bypass on the Campeche-Ciudad del Carmen road, including a correction of the outline to facilitate the tourist development of Playa Esmeralda. • Benefits: The project will increase safety and comfort of users that travel along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico and facilitate the tourist development of Playa Esmeralda and Campeche. • Regional Impact: The ring road will contribute to strengthen and diversify the economy of Campeche, by allowing the exploitation of its tourist potential. It will also facilitate the communication between the main population centers located along the Gulf of Mexico.
CIUDAD VALLES / TAMUIN RING ROAD • Length: 50.0 km • Highway corridor: Manzanillo-Tampico with a branch to L. Cardenas and Ecuandureo. • Investment: 114.6 million dollars • Location: State of San Luis Potosi • Expected traffic: 2,200 veh/day • PPP model: Individual Concession • Bidding process information: Delivery of proposals during the 4th quarter of 2009 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description: The project consists of the construction of a 50 km two lane, type A2 ring road. The project includes 4 bridges, 19 vehicle underpasses and 5 junctions. • Benefits: The project will produce journey time savings for long distance journeys, a reduction in vehicle operating costs, an increase in driving safety both inside as well as outside the city, and a more efficient communication between the center of the country and Tampico. • Regional Impact: This project will complement the actions that are being taken in the Manzanillo-Tampico corridor to improve the access between the Pacific and the center of the country with the Gulf of Mexico. In particular, it will provide an efficient access to the port of Tampico-Altamira, which will expand the hinterland covered by this port, especially in the center-north of Mexico.
SALAMANCA-LEON HIGHWAY • Length: 80.0 km • Highway corridor: Querétaro-Ciudad Juarez • Investment: 230.2 million dollars • Location: State of Guanajuato • Expected traffic: 5,900 veh/day • PPP model: Individual Concession • Bidding process information: April 27, 2010 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description: The project consists of the construction of an alternate 85 km four lane to the untolled road that currently connects Salamanca, Irapuato, Silao and Leon. It will be a 85 km four lane, highway running between the junction of Cerro Gordo, on the Queretaro-Irapuato highway, and the Leon-Aguascalientes highway, in the south of the city of Leon. • Benefits: The project will improve driving conditions in the central region of Guanajuato. It will also improve access in the Salamanca-Irapuato-Silao-Leon corridor and will improve access to the industrial, commercial and agricultural industrial zones along the corridor. • Regional Impact: The highway will integrate a high specification road axis from Morelia in Michoacan, up to Aguascalientes and many spots in the north of that city. This north-south axis through the Bajio region will re-establish the communication options of one of the most active and dynamic regions of Mexico.
CUAPIAXTLA-CUACNOPALAN HIGHWAY • Length: 74.0 km • Highway corridor: Not part of a corridor • Investment: 111.3 million dollars • Location: States of Puebla and Tlaxcala • Expected traffic: 6,000 veh/day • PPP model: Individual Concession • Bidding process information: Second semester of 2010 • Construction duration: 14 months • Description: The project consists of the construction of a two lane highway between Cuapiaxtla and Cuacnopalan, to connect the corridor of the High Plateau with the Puebla-Cordoba and Cuacnopalan-Oaxaca highways. • Benefits: To improve the integration of zones traditionally not well connected, to ease its future economic development and their integration to other regions of the country. • Regional Impact: The project will speed up long range traffic towards the south of Puebla and detonate the logistic potential of the region, as well as increase the coverage of the road connections with the state of Oaxaca.
CIUDAD JUAREZ BYPASS AND GUADALUPE – TORNILLO INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE • Length: 32.0 km • Highway corridor: Queretaro-Ciudad Juarez • Investment: 92.1 million dollars • Location: State of Chihuahua • Expected traffic: 5,000 veh/day • PPP model: Individual Concession • Bidding process information: Second semester of 2010 • Construction duration: 18 months • Description: The project consists of the construction of a 32 km two lane access between the highways Chihuahua-Ciudad Juarez and Ciudad Juarez-El Porvenir, in order to improve the long range access to the Mexico–U.S.A border. The project includes the construction of an access to the border port and the Mexican part of the Guadalupe-Tornillo bridge. • Benefits: It will improve the access for the long range traffic flow to the northern national border and will increase the installed capacity for the border crossings. The ring road will avoid the long range traffic through the city of Ciudad Juarez, which will reduce operating costs and travel times. • Regional Impact: The project will offer a new border crossing option in the east side of Ciudad Juarez and with it an international bridge system will be articulated. In coordination with priority projects in the state of Texas, this project will improve the interconnection of the Mexico-UStransport corridor.
MEXICO CITY SOUTHERN BYPASS (LA VENTA-TOPILEJO-CHALCO) WITH A BRANCH TO ATLIXCO - SAN MARTIN TEXMELUCAN AND PUEBLA SOUTHERN BYPASS • Description: The first 25 kilometers (La Venta-Topilejo stretch) will consist of six lanes with an initial 30,000 vehicles. The stretch Topilejo-Chalco will be 51 km long and will consist of four lanes. The branch to Atlixco and to San Martin Texmelucan will consist of 114 km and four lanes with an expected traffic of 8,000 vehicles. The Puebla south ring road will be 45 km long on 2 lanes, and estimates a flow of 5,000 vehicles . • Benefits: The project will offer alternatives to free the cities of Mexico and Puebla from through traffic and interconnect the zones of the southeast south, east and west of the country. It will avoid the crossing of long range journeys through the urban zone, giving a connection between the following highways: Mexico-Puebla, Puebla-Cuautla, State of Mexico exterior ring road, Mexico-Cuernavaca, Mexico-Toluca and Chamapa-Lecheria. • Regional Impact: The project will integrate a huge circumvallation ring to the Mexico City Metropolitan Area, and together with the North Ring Road will state deep transformations in travelling and activity location in a broad area of the central region of Mexico. • Total length: 235.0 km • Highway corridor: Mexico- Puebla-Oaxaca-Ciudad Hidalgo • Investment: 1,938.5 million dollars • Location: States of Mexico, Puebla, Morelos and Mexico City • Expected traffic: Between 5,000 and 30,000 veh/day in the different sections of the project • PPP model: Individual concession • Bidding process information: First semester of 2011 • Construction duration: 36 months
JALA – COMPOSTELA – PUERTO VALLARTA HIGHWAY • Length: 166.0 km • Highway corridor: Not part of a corridor • Investment: 814.5 million dollars • Location: States of Jalisco and Nayarit • Expected traffic: 2,500 veh/day • PPP model: Individual concession • Bidding process information: Second half of 2010 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description: The project consists of the construction of a 130 km four lane highway from Jala, over the Guadalajara-Tepic highway, to the Puerto Vallarta junction. • Benefits: The project will provide an efficient access from the center of the country as far as Puerto Vallarta and the Nayarit Riviera. It will reduce current journey times, especially during the vacation period, and increase safety. It will also eliminate a bottle neck at the access to Puerto Vallarta and will promote its development as weekend destination.. • Regional Impact: The project will make the access from the center of the country towards the tourist destinies of the Nayarit Coast and Puerto Vallarta easier, promoting the regional development and opening new tourist markets in a zone with an ample national and international projection.
ATIZAPAN – ATLACOMULCO HIGHWAY • Length: 80.0 km • Highway corridor: Mexico–Nogales with a branch to Tijuana • Investment: 291.6 million dollars • Location: State of Mexico • Expected traffic: 10,000 veh/day • PPP model: Individual concession • Bidding process information: Second half of 2010 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description: The project consists of the construction of a 80 km six and four lane highway in isolated stretches to give a new exit towards the west for the traffic of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area. • Benefits: The project will offer the user a direct exit from the northeast of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area to Morelia, Guadalajara and points at the west of the country, and will count with the missing link of the direct route between Mexico and Guadalajara. • Regional Impact: Together with the Atlacomulco-Maravatio, Maravatio-Guadalajara, Chamapa-Lecheria and Mexico City North Ring Road, the project will contribute to a better articulation of the central region of Mexico. At the same time it will promote the consolidation of the Atlacomulco region as a neuralgic point for transportation and economical activity in the center of the country.
CUERNAVACA BYPASS • Description: The project consists in building a four lane bypass at the northeast of the city of Cuernavaca, in the state of Morelos, to give continuity to the traffic towards destinations located at the south of the city. Its draft starts over the Mexico-Cuernavaca highway, in the north of the urban zone of Cuernavaca, and ends at the south of Alpuyeca, over the Cuernavaca-Acapulco highway. • Benefits: The project will separate the long range highway flows from the local flows of the city of Cuernavaca. By doing it, time and journey costs for long distance journeys will decrease and it will increase traffic safety and air quality in the urban zone of Cuernavaca. • Regional Impact: This highway will reduce in half an hour the journey time between Mexico City and Acapulco, which will potentiate the tourist development of the south of Guerrero. It will also improve local flows in Cuernavaca and increase the efficiency of the traffic within the city. • Length: 34.0 km • Highway corridor: Acapulco-Veracruz • Investment: 214.8 million dollars • Location: State of Morelos • Expected traffic: 6,900 veh/day • PPP model: Individual Concession • Bidding process information:Second half of 2010 • Construction duration: 24 months
TEZIUTLAN – NAUTLA HIGHWAY • Length: 80.0 km • Highway corridor: Not part of a corridor • Investment: 149 million dollars • Location: States of Puebla and Veracruz • Expected traffic: 2,800 veh/day • PPP model: Individual Concession • Bidding process information: Second half of 2010 • Construction duration: 24 months • Description: The project consists of the construction of a 80 km two lane highway with a stretch of 35 km in the state of Puebla and another one of 45 km in Veracruz. • Benefits: The highway will facilitate access from the Puebla northern Sierra to the Gulf of Mexico. It will reduce vehicle operating costs and journey times, and will provide higher safety to journeys originated or with destination in the central and western zones of the state of Puebla and north of Veracruz. • Regional Impact: This project will improve access between high potential agricultural and touristic zones and contribute to the economic activity and employment in Puebla and Veracruz.
MANZANILLO RAILWAY BYPASS • Length: Railroad Bypass 11.5 km Railroad Tunnel 2.2 km • Corridor: Manzanillo – Mexico City • Investment: 276.6 million dollars* • Location: State of Colima • Expected traffic: 2.7 million TEU per year • PPP model: Public investment • Bidding process information: 6 October 2009 • Construction duration: Until May 2011 • Description: The project consists of a railroad bypass, a railroad tunnel, the construction of a railway viaduct (Omega Project) and a multimode project (designed for the long term, 15 to 20 years). • Benefits: To allow the development of the natural gas plant of the Federal Electricity Commission, solve the road problem of the city of Manzanillo, improve the urban and industrial infrastructure, and improve quality of life. • Regional Impact: The infrastructure that is being built in this project will allow the eventual growth of the port and the development of a multimodal project of huge dimensions. It is foreseen that the port might achieve the capacity to handle around 2.7 million TEU per year, once the expansion of the north zone of the port is operating. At the same time, it allows to establish favorable conditions for investment. *Exchange rate: 13pesos mexicanos perUnitedStatesdollar
TAPACHULA RAILWAY BYPASS • Length: 11.1 km • Corridor: Chiapas - Mayab • Investment: 21.25 million dollars • Location: State of Chiapas • Expected traffic: TBD • PPP model: Public investment (through the FIT) • Bidding process information: TBD • Construction duration: Until December 2010 • Description: Construction of 11.1 kilometers of railways to the west of the city of Tapachula, with the construction of a bridge over the river Coatan and a vehicle underpass at the highway that connects Tapachula with Puerto Chiapas. The project also considers the acquisition of the right of way, the construction of dirt roads and drainage works along the route and the installation of the rails . • Benefits: The railroad will avoid passing through Tapachula. It will reduce time losses significantly for the inhabitants of Tapachula, which is caused by traffic and railroad operation. It will also reduce the emission of pollutants, will allow savings in the operation costs of the railway and will increase the efficiency in the transportation of goods. • Regional Impact: It will provide higher efficiency conditions in the transportation of goods in the region and considers the future industrial development and the demand for mobility that will be reflected in the railroad. At the same time, it will establish better conditions to encourage investment in the region and the creation of jobs.
CELAYA RAILWAY BYPASS • Length: 23.4 km for Line “A” 27.7 km for Line “NB” Total: 51 km • Corridor: Lazaro Cardenas – Laredo Manzanillo – Mexico City • Investment: 184.6 million dollars* • Location: State of Guanajuato • Expected traffic: TBD • PPP model: Public investment: Federal and local government, and private • Bidding process information: 4th quarter 2009 (studies) 2nd quarter 2010 (tender) • Construction duration: 2010-2012 • Description: Design and construction of a railroad bypass system around the urban area of Celaya; a new exchange yard that substitutes the one operating today, a park for automobile industry suppliers and an intermodal terminal for the handling of fiscal cargo and domestic traffic. • Benefits: Decrease time lost due to the traffic congestion and the exchange of trains, reduce the number of accidents avoiding the crossing of the railroad over more than 18 dangerous crossings, improve efficiency and competitiveness in the transportation of goods. • Regional Impact: The project considers the installation of future industrial parks that will benefit with the new tracing out of the railways, without compromising the wellbeing of the urban zone. It will encourage more investment in the region and will exploit the economic potential of Guanajuato; and it will allow the expansion of the capacity of the railroad in the future, enabling a higher coverage in the coming years. *Exchange rate: 13pesos mexicanos perUnitedStatesdollar
CIUDAD JUAREZ RAILWAY BYPASS (Paso del Norte integral railroad project) • Description: The project consists of i) Santa Teresa Project: railroad bypass San Jeronimo-Santa Teresa (63 km) and border crossing at the Santa Teresa location; and ii) Ciudad Juarez Project: uban railway coexistence works (vehicle underpasses and pedestrian passes) and hydraulic work. • Benefits: An increase in railroad operating time through the new border crossing to 24 hours (the actual crossing operates 8 hours), fluidity and safety to railroad operations, an improvement in the exchange of goods between Mexico and the U.S., and a reduction in traffic congestion that is caused by the passing of the railroad through the urban zone. • Regional Impact: Encouragement of economic, industrial and social development by producing the reactivation of this transportation infrastructure for exporting to the U.S. and Canada. At the same time, to encourage and attract the investment in this region, creating new employment sources. • Length: 63 km (ring road) • Corridor: Mexico – Ciudad Juárez • Investment: 168 million dollars. • Mexican side): 90 mill Sta. Teresa project, 78 mill Cd. Juarez project • Location: State of Chihuahua • PPP model: Public investment: Federal, local and municipal financing and a Concession. • Bidding process information: TBD
MATAMOROS RAILWAY BYPASS • Length: 10 km (excluding rail yard) • Corridor: Mazatlan - Matamoros • Investment: 55.7 million dollars* • Location: Municipality of Matamoros, Tamaulipas • Expected traffic: TBD • PPP model: Asset Utilization (Tamaulipas Northeast package) • Bidding process information: Delivery of proposals in December 2009 • Construction duration: 24 months, December 2011. • Description: The project consists of the construction of a railroad bypass to divert traffic from the Matamoros – Brownsville corridor towards the west of the urban area. The project also includes the modernization of the Mazatlan-Matamoros highway that connects the Pacific with the Gulf of Mexico. • Benefits: An increase in rail productivity, elimination of bottlenecks at level crossings, a reduction in vehicle and rail operating costs, a substantial increase in safety by avoiding conflicts between road and rail vehicles as well as avoiding a vehicle-mix between long distance and local journeys in the Matamoros urban area. • Regional Impact: The project will foster industrial development and will set up a new configuration on the B&M international bridge to allow express crossings for SENTRI-type light vehicles. This project will be a key to increase the level of cross-border traffic by improving the efficiency of the logistic channels in the northern region of the continent. *Exchange rate: 13pesos mexicanos perUnitedStatesdollar
RIVIERA MAYA AIRPORT • Description: Construction of a new airport, category OACI “4E”. It includes the construction of the terminal building, a runway, taxiing runways, platform, operation areas, CREI (rescue team), fuel station and control tower. • Benefits: Reduction in journey times, avoiding road transportation from Cancun or Cozumel to the destinations in the Maya Riviera. At the same time, it will allow the diversification of the airport service offer in a region with a tourist runway with a dynamic growth. • Regional Impact: A higher accessibility to the region, support for the development of an international tourist attraction pole and the creation, of both direct and indirect jobs. • Note: The Isla Mujeres-Cancun-Cozumel-Tulumcorridor is the most important tourist destination of Mexico. It consists of a demand of 9 million visitor, and it is foreseen that this demand will increase to 17.9 million tourists in 2025. • Capacity: • 3 million passengers per year (initially) • Runway length: 3,450 m • Location: State of Quintana Roo:Playa del Carmen (Solidaridad and Tulum municipalities) • Investment: 233 million dollars (airport complex and access roads) • Expected traffic: 700 thousand passengers per year (first year) • PPP model: Concession: private investment • Bidding process information: In process • Construction duration: 2 years
PALENQUE NEW AIRPORT • Capacity: 300,000 annual passengers • Runway length: 2,500 m x 45 m • Location: State of Chiapas (Palenque) • Investment: 60 million dollars (plus cost of land acquisition) • Expected traffic: 300,000 annual passengers • PPP model: Public investment (through a Society of Stately Majority Participation): 51% Chiapas and 49% ASA. Bidding process is not taking place because the concession was assigned to de state of Chiapas government. • Construction duration: 2010 - 2012 • Description: Construction of a New Airport with a capacity of 300,000 passengers per year, including: platform and runways, terminal building (2,500 m2) and complementary infrastructure. • Benefits: Coverage expansion and improvement in the quality of the infrastructure and air transportation services. Savings in time, by changing the way passengers are being transported. • Regional Impact: An increase in air transportation competitiveness regarding infrastructure and airport services.