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20 Negocios Photos courtesy of ministry of communications and transportation
The idea is to rent supply ships -with the
capacity to transport up to 30,000 barrelsto
Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX, the stateowned
petroleum company). TNG also has
space to repair, convert and construct other
ships.
Hidalgo is next
HPH announced in January 2009 its next
great project on Mexican land. It is literally
on land. It’s the development of a dry port in
Hidalgo, a state with one of the largest borders
in the country.
Over an area of 208 hectares in the region
of Tepeji del Río, the dry port will include
an intermodal cargo terminal and a
logistics park. The project is the result of an
agreement between HPH, the UNNE corporation
and the state government of Hidalgo.
HPH and UNNE have created for themselves
Grupo de Logística Mexicano, a company
that will operate and develop the new facility,
which main services will be to transport
by land and railroad containers from various
commercial ports to other regions of the
country.
Today, HPH has the following business units in the country:
• Ensenada International Terminal (EIT) and
Cruise Ship Terminal, in Baja California
• Manzanillo International Terminal (TIMSA), in Colima
• Veracruz International Container Partners (ICAVE) and
Gulf Naval Yard (TNG), in Veracruz
• Lázaro Cárdenas Port Container Terminal (LCT), in Michoacán
In the words of Gerry Yim, administrative
director of HPH for America, the Middle
East and Africa, “the new terminal will play
a relevant role in the operation of cargo containers
between the main ports of the Pacific
and the Gulf. This will allow it to be part of
the flow of commercial cargo that is spread
from north to south, entering and leaving
Mexico under the benefits of TLCAN.”
Other benefits include improving the
transportation of cargo from Hidalgo to
Mexico City, which will reduce current railway
congestion. This is not counting new
investment and jobs in the region: HPH is investing
120 million usd and it’s calculated the
project will generate close to 10,000 jobs in
the area. The development will also attract
investment from other logistics companies
that will use the terminal as their operations
base.
The project is advancing. Construction
will begin this year and the terminal is expected
to start operating in the first half of
2010. n