MEXICO CITY – Mexico is seeking to incorporate Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) into three projects, Business News Americas reported. After a meeting between Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, U.S. officials, and CPKC executives in Mexico City, the government said it invited CPKC to participate in the 932-mile Maya train that will connect five states in the southeast and rebuilding of the 186-mile Tehuantepec isthmus corridor between Oaxaca and Veracruz states.
The Maya train will traverse the Yucatán Peninsula. Construction began in June 2020 and is scheduled to be completed by 2024. The railway begins in Palenque in Chiapas and travels northeast towards Cancún in Quintana Roo via two routes that encircle the peninsula.
The Tehuantepec isthmus corridor, also known as the interoceanic corridor, involves the rehabilitation of the rail line between Coatzacoalcos port in Veracruz and Salina Cruz port in Oaxaca, Mexico’s narrowest stretch between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and the expansion and modernization of both ports.
López Obrador also said that he asked CPKC to take over the canceled Mexico City-Queretaro high speed project. “They are going to analyze the proposal we made. We want to have a passenger train to Querétaro because the highway is saturated. It is no longer advisable to continue expanding. What we look for is an alternate route. It could be the railway, there was already a project, remember that it was canceled,” he said.
The line was originally awarded in 2014 to a Chinese-Mexican consortium led by China Railway Construction Corp. It was dropped in 2015 amid corruption scandals, Business News Americas reported.
CPKC tweeted Wednesday that it shared with López Obrador “exciting plans about how CPKC will grow commerce and prosperity in Mexico, the United States & Canada.” The plan could expand CPKC’s network, as its current lines only reach Lázaro Cardenas port in Michoacán state and Veracruz port.
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