A True Masterpiece, "NORTH" by Brown Cannon III From Tubes To Turns, Jai Glindeman's Surfing is a Treat to Behold Gerry Lopez Goes Deep With Justin Jay On The Plug Podcast NewsAll NewsEventsBig Wave NewsWorld Surf LeagueEnvironmentalIndustryWave PoolsPosts List ‘He Was Such a Legend’: A Decade After His Death, Shawn “Barney” Barron’s Spirit Shines in Colorful Air Show Hawaiian Big Wave Icon Clyde Aikau Passes Away at 75 LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website Jackson Dorian can't escape the comparisons to his Dad That's just par for the course when your Dad is one of the biggest surfing legends of all-time Dorian lives up to the expectations that inherently come with his last name One of the most talented teenagers in the world he's the full package: Just like his father and his rail work is way ahead of most kids his age Speaking of rail work, Dorian headed south to Salina Cruz for the season's first big south swell “I've been going down to Salina Cruz every year since I was 10 years old,” Dorian says in the opening segment of this clip while crossing the border from the USA to Tijuana “I think it's a big reason I surf the way I do It's really good training — righthand points a lot like Snapper You can just drill the same turn over and over again.” Click play above to watch Dorian do exactly that in Part 1 Judging from his recent Instagram post (see below) the swell picked up quite a bit after these first few days and we'll be seeing Dorian streak through big Salina Cruz tubes in the next episode We’re unable to load this content right now View directly on Instagram closed a surf camp after reporting the presence of several foreign surfers who did not respect the mandatory quarantine that applies throughout Mexico reported the newspaper El Imparcial del Istmo Residents of Playa Brasil and Playa Azul have denounced the establishment's authorities for renting rooms to foreigners and transporting them by sea to surf in the area's spots which the newspaper said was allegedly owned by a former mayor was closed and will not be allowed to reopen "The owner is not respecting the sanitary measures and even broke the seals that were placed just a week ago and reopened without caring that the health of many citizens is at risk," explained Jehú Dávalos In Mexico there are 3844 people infected with Covid19 and 233 deaths have already been recorded Huston-based energy company GFI LNG and Pilot LNG a compatriot clean energy infrastructure developer have teamed up to develop a small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Mexico’s Salina Cruz on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal The two players are set to construct and operate an LNG bunkering and transshipment terminal in Salina Cruz Mexico as part of the Salina Cruz LNG joint venture (JV) Given its location on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal the project is believed to be ideally positioned to supply North and Central American bunker and fuel markets The facility is expected to produce 600,000 gallons of LNG daily or approximately 0.34 million metric tonnes per annum (mtpa) with operations scheduled to start in mid-to-late 2027 The front-end engineering and design development is planned for this quarter followed by a 12-18 month development and permitting timeline and a final investment decision (FID) in the second half of 2025 the GFI team is dedicated to helping bring infrastructure development to Salina Cruz and brings a critically necessary understanding and appreciation for the local community and government,” said Jonathan Cook “We are pleased to be working with GFI to help progress this project.” The partners are designing the project to include modular land-based liquefaction equipment and an optimized storage solution entailing a floating storage unit (FSU) with an estimated capacity ranging from 50,000 to 140,000 m3 which will be moored inside the newly expanded breakwater in the Port of Salina Cruz The domestic gas supply from the Veracruz Gulf region is meant to provide access to new markets along the Pacific Coast This includes LNG marine fuel deliveries at the Pacific entry of the Panama Canal and into Southern California’s Long Beach and Los Angeles ports and trucked volumes in the local region of southwestern Mexico “The infrastructure planned in Salina Cruz will not only provide LNG to growing markets seeking cleaner fuel but will also bring millions in direct community investment to the region,” noted GFI owner Genaro Gomez “We are pleased to be adding the LNG and marine expertise of Pilot to the development team we look forward to bringing this facility to Salina Cruz.” Pilot LNG is also developing the Galveston LNG bunker port (GLBP) in the Galveston Bay/Greater Houston port complex with Seapath. The permit applications for the proposed project which includes natural gas liquids and refrigerant storage and associated marine and loading facilities were submitted for state and federal approval in April Another LNG terminal – Energía Costa Azul LNG – is being developed in Mexico’s Baja California and start of commercial operations a year later Phase 1 entails building a single-train LNG facility with the capability to export approximately 3.25 mtpa of LNG while Phase 2 will see its expansion by adding around 12 mtpa of LNG export capacity with two trains and one LNG storage tank Daily news and in-depth stories in your inbox Ingersoll Rand Engineering Project Solutions At Ingersoll Rand’s Engineering Project Solutions we have been managing and implementing engineered to-order air packages for complex technical requirements for over 60 years We provide specialized custom compressed air and gas compressors as well as nitrogen generation packages to international EPC contractors and engineering companies across a range of […] After a weekend trip to Baja California and Sonora President Claudia Sheinbaum held her Monday morning press conference in the National Palace in Mexico City A milestone in the operation of the railroad across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec a National Electoral Institute ruling and her ever-soaring popularity were among the issues she spoke about Sheinbaum acknowledged that a maiden shipment of vehicles — 900 Hyundai cars from South Korea — was transported across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec by train over the weekend She said that “some products” had already been transported across the isthmus between Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, and Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, but it was the first time that vehicles were taken across the 308-kilometer-long modernized railroad between the two ports The modernized railroad is the centerpiece of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT) infrastructure project The docking of the Hyundai Glovis cargo ship in Salina Cruz on Friday was dubbed the “first arrival at the Interoceanic Corridor” in a banner unfurled at the port The trans-isthmus shipment of the Hyundai vehicles was described as “the launch of a groundbreaking new route.” Sheinbaum said that the port in Salina Cruz is “still being developed” with public and private investment. Even so, “larger ships” have begun docking there thanks to the breakwater built during the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador Sheinbaum added that a grain storage terminal will be built at the Salina Cruz port and “other actions” will be undertaken to “strengthen the port.” She was effusive in her praise of the CIIT, which is also slated to include a chain of 10 industrial parks “It’s an exceptional project — it provides an alternative to the Panama Canal,” Sheinbaum said “And when the port of Salina Cruz is finished it will have a lot more activity,” she said Former Navy Minister José Rafael Ojeda Durán asserted in 2023 that Mexico would become a “world shipping power” thanks to the construction of the trade corridor between the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec Sheinbaum told reporters that her government has not yet been formally notified of the  decision by the National Electoral Institute (INE) to prohibit federal public institutions and individual officials from promoting Mexico’s first ever judicial elections “We haven’t been notified yet,” she said adding that such a rule only takes effect after notification of those affected The judicial elections will be held on June 1 thanks to a controversial judicial reform approved by Congress last September The official campaign period for candidates for judgeships Sheinbaum said that her government has simply been reminding people that the elections are coming up not campaigning on behalf of any candidates She made it clear that she doesn’t agree with the INE’s ruling and on both Sunday — when the ban took effect — and Monday when she didn’t comply with it “We’re not going to promote voting for one person or another but simply participation [in the elections],” Sheinbaum emphasized She told reporters that the federal government will challenge the INE’s decision at the Federal Electoral Tribunal “because we believe it’s important that the executive power and the legislative power without directing [citizens to vote for] one person or another … participate in the dissemination of this transformational event that will take place in Mexico on June 1.” Sheinbaum and other federal officials say that the election of judges is necessary to rid the judiciary of corruption and other ills such as nepotism Critics of the judicial elections argue that the election of judges will erode the independence of Mexico’s judiciary because it will come to be stacked with judges sympathetic to the ruling Morena party’s agenda thus removing a vital check on executive power A reporter noted that a poll conducted for the El País newspaper and W Radio detected an approval rating of 82% for Sheinbaum in March The president — as she invariably does when flattering poll results are mentioned at her mañanera — thanked the people of Mexico for their support She added that her government will “never betray the people.” Sheinbaum said that the high levels of support she enjoys reflect a “very different” reality in Mexico to that perceived or promoted by “the famous commentariat of intellectuals from the past linked to the regime of the past — that before 2018.” marking the commencement of the so-called “fourth transformation” of public life in Mexico of which the current president says she is building “el segundo piso,” or second story By Mexico News Daily chief staff writer Peter Davies ([email protected]) ADVERTISE WITH MND COMMUNITY GUIDELINES Subscription FAQ's Privacy Policy Mexico News Daily - Property of Tavana LLC GFI LNG LP (GFI), a diversified energy solutions company, and Pilot LNG LLC (Pilot) a Houston-based clean energy infrastructure developer today announced that they have formed a partnership to develop and operate a small-scale LNG terminal in Salina Cruz the facility is anticipated to produce 600,000 gallons of liquified natural gas (LNG) per day or roughly 0.34 million metric tonnes per annum (MTPA) The partners anticipate operations to commence in mid-to-late 2027 the project is being designed to include modular land-based liquefaction equipment and an optimized storage solution The project will deploy a floating storage unit (FSU) with an estimated capacity ranging from 50,000 – 140,000 m3 to be moored inside the newly expanded breakwater in the Port of Salina Cruz GFI, a Houston-based energy company, has over 20 years of continuous commodity sales of natural gas, refined products, and electricity into Mexico. “The infrastructure planned in Salina Cruz will not only provide LNG to growing markets seeking cleaner fuel, but will also bring millions in direct community investment to the region” said Gomez. “We are pleased to be adding the LNG and marine expertise of Pilot to the development team. Thanks to our new partnership with Pilot, we look forward to bringing this facility to Salina Cruz.” GFI and Pilot plan to commence front-end engineering and design development for the project this quarter. The partners anticipate a 12-18 month development and permitting timeline and anticipate announcing a Final Investment Decision (FID) in the second half of 2025. The products and services herein described in this press release are not endorsed by The Maritime Executive. © Copyright 2025 The Maritime Executive, LLC. All rights reserved. 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Energy company GFI LNG and energy infrastructure developer Pilot LNG announced a partnership to develop construct and operate a small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Salina Cruz The partners said they plan to commence front-end engineering and design (FEED) development for the project this quarter followed by a 12-18 month development and permitting timeline and anticipated final investment decision (FID) in the second half of 2025 Scheduled to become fully operational between mid-to-late 2027 the facility is expected to produce 600,000 gallons of LNG daily equivalent to approximately 0.34 million metric tonnes per annum (MTPA) A floating storage unit (FSU) with a capacity of 50,000 to 140,000 m³ will be moored within the newly expanded breakwater at the Port of Salina Cruz The Salina Cruz terminal will utilize domestic Mexican gas from the Veracruz gulf region to access high-value markets along the Pacific Coast These markets include LNG marine fuel deliveries at the Pacific entry of the Panama Canal and Southern California (the Ports of Long Beach & Los Angeles) Customers of Salina Cruz will benefit from competitively priced LNG linked to Henry Hub prices “The infrastructure planned in Salina Cruz will not only provide LNG to growing markets seeking cleaner fuel but will also bring millions in direct community investment to the region” said Gomez “We are pleased to be adding the LNG and marine expertise of Pilot to the development team we look forward to bringing this facility to Salina Cruz.” “With long personal ties to the region the GFI team is dedicated to helping bring infrastructure development to Salina Cruz and brings a critically necessary understanding and appreciation for the local community and government,” said Jonathan Cook “We are pleased to be working with GFI to help progress this project.” The Israeli military said it carried out airstrikes against Yemen's Hodeidah Port on Monday The construction of CO2 transit terminal at Port 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Cruz refinery in Oaxaca also reported no injuries or property damage according to local civil protection officials Both incidents highlight recent challenges faced by Pemex’s infrastructure though safety measures ensured no reported casualties or structural damages Despite queries regarding potential production impacts at the Minatitlán refinery Pemex declined to provide additional details when contacted by Reuters No further updates have been released about the fire at Salina Cruz local authorities have assured that the incidents are under control This reflects the operational measures in place to safeguard workers and facilities during such emergencies The swift response at both Minatitlán and Salina Cruz limited risks to personnel and surrounding infrastructure A fire at Pemex’s Minatitlán refinery in Veracruz was extinguished without injuries as confirmed by Pemex and local authorities which occurred at the refinery capable of processing up to 285,000 bpd Pemex stated that neither 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price transparency & key data for the N Learn More: EOD natural gas forward price curves at 70+ key North American trading locations Forward curve prices of natural gas in North America Mexico natural gas pricing data & fundamentals Insight into tomorrow's natural gas prices and historical data Pricing and market developments for shale and unconventional plays and market developments for shale and unconventional plays Houston-based Pilot LNG LLC plans to develop a liquefied natural gas bunkering and transshipment terminal on Mexico’s West Coast to capitalize on the growing marine fuel market The company said it would develop Salina Cruz LNG in a joint venture (JV) with Houston-based affiliate GFI LNG LP which has sold commodities in Mexico for more than 20 years The facility would be near Salinas Del Marqués and Salina Cruz in Oaxaca state the facility would be positioned to supply North and Central American bunker and fuel markets The terminal is being designed to produce 600,000 gallons/day of LNG and would also include a 50,000-130,000 cubic meter floating storage unit The JV said it expects a 12- to 18-month permitting timeline and hopes to sanction the project in the second half of 2025 The project would provide LNG marine fuel at the Pacific entry of the Panama Canal and into Southern California The developers are also hoping to sell into the Central American power markets and provide LNG via truck in southwestern Mexico The LNG produced by the facility is expected to be sold at prices linked to U.S. benchmark Henry Hub Pilot is developing another LNG bunkering port off the Texas coast in Galveston Bay with partner Seapath Group The company filed applications for that facility with federal regulators earlier this year The Galveston Bay terminal would include liquefaction trains that could produce 600,000 gallons of LNG daily along with two 3 million gallon LNG storage tanks and other infrastructure the Galveston Bay facility would be the region’s first 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You’re not crossing the border for a tactical assault, you’re going because you saw a Southern Hemi swell en route to Salina Cruz and you’re calling in sick on Wednesday night for a long weekend of draining right tubes loving wife and office job more than ample face time It’s time to hurt your hips from crouching in 80-degree sand-bottomed dream-pits — not your office chair Don’t waste ‘em seeing anything but the inside of a reeling right tube The ruins at Chichen Itza can wait for the Mrs At a glanceBest airline: Delta or AeroMexico (Average $650 roundtrip from LAX)Best swell: South-SouthwestBest months: April-OctoberBest boards: Just bring a couple standard shortboards the dispersion and amount of arena is a consideration but if you’re going in the summer (and you should) you want a sizeable south swell between 190 and 220 degrees and south-southwest winds Fly into the town of Huatulco (HUX) located in the state of Oaxaca and a (pre-booked) shuttle from the surf camp will take you the two-hour drive to the city of Salina Cruz It’s at this point that you relinquish control and let your camp guides bring you to one of the dozen right pointbreaks and a few choice beachbreaks Is it really that good? Is John John Florence good at Pipe Have you seen Dusty Payne’s part in Lost Atlas The place is full of 100-yard hollow and rippable right points Unless you’re a picky goofyfoot with something against your backside (see: Ry Craike) perfect your tight arcs and punt when the wind blows slightly onshore the guide and whoever else is at the camp will get up before dawn and log a solid multi-hour morning session but that brutal Oaxacan heat will have you running for cover Surely there are others with the same dream as opposed to its neighbor Puerto Escondido to the north If you’re driving along the sand and one spot is too crowded the point or jetty or beachbreak just around the corner is usually another option But there is a beachbreak an hour south and another one in town that attracts a lot of swell and turns on when the wind switches I heard surf camps are the only option — that true The camps and their guides run the show down there while it is theoretically possible to access the breaks on your own you don’t know which obscure dirt alley to turn down where it’s OK to drive on the beach and where it’s not wouldn’t be worth the few bucks saved and hours wasted Use your Google machine to connect you with the fine folks at Las Palmeras Surf Camp Two workers died and another suffered burns in an explosion and fire Saturday at Pemex’s Salina Cruz oil refinery on the Oaxaca coast The early-afternoon conflagration — which caused much concern among residents in the Oaxaca port city — occurred after heavy rainfall caused drains filled with oily waste to overflow onto walkways inside the complex plant manager Arturo Recio Espinoza told reporters on Monday Recio admitted that Mariana Sánchez Bailón who was hospitalized with burns on various parts of his body was identified as Julián Meléndez Martínez According to the online news outlet Oaxaca Político Sánchez was an administrative employee and Martínez was an engineer Sánchez died while sitting in the back of a pickup truck parked in the complex and Martínez was located near the truck when the explosion happened Sanchez’s body was desiccated by the intense heat of the explosion Recio said the incident led to a “temporary halt” in operations at the facility’s main distillation and gasoline plants but that no other units were affected has a crude oil processing capacity of 330,000 barrels per day it was operating at approximately 70% of capacity Recio also revealed that the plant’s cleanup-and-repair operation included a pumping procedure that sent sludge onto La Ventosa Beach Refinery personnel were hurriedly cleaning up that spill The Pemex plant manager also explained that “atypical” rains caused the refinery’s internal drainage and storm management system — which handles industrial waste such as oil and gasoline — to overflow When the slurry rose to the surface and came into contact with a spark or flame “We are in the initial stages of investigation and interviews to establish the root cause of where the fire started,” Recio said Monday He also noted that the deceased worked for Eseasa and Pesado a transport company subcontracted by ICA Fluor procurement and construction at the oil refinery ICA Fluor is under contract with Pemex to build a coking plant at the Salina Cruz refinery the newspaper El Universal reported that fishermen and oil workers in the area blamed the fire — and the “constant spills that contaminate La Ventosa Bay” — on the refinery’s obsolete sewage and wastewater treatment systems These sources told El Universal said that the systems haven’t been operating for at least 10 years which causes oil and gasoline waste to go untreated the industrial waste goes straight into a drainage system that discharges into La Ventosa Bay a spill of oily waste covered the beach and flooded its fishing and oyster area “We are tired,” said fishermen and oyster extractors as quoted by El Universal “We are going to make decisions in the next few days to show the oil company that it cannot contaminate with impunity.” Though usually called the Salina Cruz refinery, the Pemex plant is officially named the Antonio Dovalí Jaime refinery in tribute to a late civil engineer from Zacatecas This was not the first Pemex oil refinery in 2024 to experience an explosion: in February, state Civil Protection officials in Hidalgo, reported an explosion at Pemex’s Tula refinery — the nation’s most productive — that they said occurred inside its hydrodesulfurization plant where the sulfur is removed from refined petroleum products using a high-pressure process the apple definitely didn't fall far from the tree is one of the best longboarders in the world and he's also known for his stylish approach in waves of consequence Of course, in-between it all, he always makes time to join Joel for some quality time down south on the points of Salina Cruz Without a single unnecessary movement ever these two are the definition of easy on the eyes Don't miss another headline from SURFER! 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Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch high-quality surf videos The federal government announced Thursday that it will invest almost 33 billion pesos (US $1.6 billion) to modernize and expand six ports four on Mexico’s Pacific coast and two on the Gulf of Mexico The ports set to benefit from the investment are: At her morning press conference on Thursday President Claudia Sheinbaum described the investment as “very significant.” She noted that the outlay is in addition to investment in the ports in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, and Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz. Those two ports — the former on the Pacific side of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the latter on the Gulf of Mexico side — are being modernized and expanded as part of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT) project The Mexican Navy’s general director of port promotion and administration Marco Antonio Martínez Plancarte provided the details about the investment in the six “strategic” ports of Ensenada Lázaro Cárdenas and Acapulco on Mexico’s Pacific coast and Veracruz and Progreso on the Gulf coast The Pacific ports are Mexico’s gateway to Asia while the Gulf of Mexico ports provide access to Europe and the Gulf and East coasts of the United States A total of 5.74 billion pesos (US $283.7 million) is set to be invested in the port in Ensenada located about 100 kilometers south of Tijuana on the Pacific side of the Baja California peninsula Martínez noted that the Ensenada port is made up of two different precincts — one called Ensenada and the other called El Sauzal the port will be deepened and a maritime traffic control center will be built The increased depth will allow the port to accommodate larger ships the wharves and breakwater will be expanded and fishing boat docks will be relocated Martínez said that the projects will commence in 2025 and conclude in 2028 the Ensenada port precinct will only receive cruise ships while the El Sauzal precinct will receive container ships as well as fishing vessels in a separate section Martínez said that the government will invest 13.59 billion pesos (US $671.2 million) in projects in the Nuevo Manzanillo and Manzanillo San Pedrito precincts of the Manzanillo port He noted that the Manzanillo port is Mexico’s largest and the third biggest in Latin America Among the proposed projects for the Nuevo Manzanillo port precinct are the construction of two fuel terminals four container terminals and a “specialized dock” for large fishing vessels A customs precinct with the capacity to attend to 10 million shipping containers annually will also be established The private sector is slated to invest close to 50 billion pesos in the Nuevo Manzanillo project which will transform Mexico’s largest port into a major international logistics hub new docks for container ships and fishing vessels will be built and a new storage area for empty shipping containers will be established The projects in Manzanillo are set to begin in 2025 and conclude in 2029 A total of 6.14 billion pesos (US $303.4 million) has been set aside to modernize the port in Lázaro Cárdenas A range of infrastructure projects will aim to more than double the number of 20-foot-long shipping containers the port can handle on an annual basis The port’s current capacity is 4 million containers annually but projects including the expansion of docks and the construction of new access roads is slated to increase capacity to 8.2 million containers per year The port in Acapulco, battered by Hurricane Otis in October 2023 is set to receive a 386-million-peso (US $19 million) makeover Martínez said that “major maintenance” work will be carried out on the port’s “multiple purpose dock” as well as in the Jardín del Puerto (Port Garden) and a section of the port where new eateries and an entertainment precinct are slated to be installed Martínez said that 1.8 billion pesos (US $88.9 million) will be allocated to the construction of a new breakwater at the port in Veracruz The new eastern breakwater will allow the establishment of new terminals in the port and thus attract new investment The Veracruz port provides quick access to the United States’ Gulf coast, a factor that helped attract investment from U.S. brewery Constellation Brands Martínez said that a total of 7.22 billion pesos (US $356.7 million) will be invested in the port in Progreso located just north of Mérida and due south of New Orleans The federal government will contribute 5.2 billion pesos the state government will provide 1.5 billion pesos and the private sector will chip in with 525 million pesos Martínez said that the money will go to the construction of “an 80-hectare platform” that will be able to accommodate a shipyard as well as a range of terminals including ones for liquefied gas and petroleum The Maya Train railroad is expected to be extended to Progreso which would allow freight trains to take goods to the port for onward shipment by sea The modernized ports in the six aforesaid locations as well as Salina Cruz and Coatzacoalcos will complement the 10 new industrial corridors the Sheinbaum administration intends to develop As it seeks to capitalize on Mexico’s nearshoring opportunity and increase domestic production capacity in order to reduce reliance on imports from China the federal government is planning to establish specialized industrial corridors or “well-being hubs,” spanning all 32 federal entities Each corridor will focus on attracting investment from companies in specific sectors of the economy For example, the priority sectors for the Bajío corridor are automotive, data centers, aeronautical and tourism, while the trans-isthmus corridor — part of the CIIT — will focus on renewable energy The upgraded ports on Mexico’s Pacific and Gulf coasts could facilitate the export of products manufactured in the different industrial corridors which includes private sector representatives will focus on the development of the government’s “well-being hubs.” the president met with members of the Mexican Business Council (CMN) which is affiliated with the government’s advisory council Sheinbaum told reporters that she spoke to business leaders about Plan México a government initiative whose aims include increasing investment in Mexico and the development of the industrial corridors The president said that she explained to the CMN members how they could contribute to the realization of the plan “There was a commitment to work together … complement each other and invest,” she said The right-point rich surf community of Salina Cruz Mexico was dealt a surprising blow recently when a plan was proposed for an industrial port that would steamroll right through surf spot Punta Conejo The plan was developed by Asia-based urban consultancy agency as part of Mexico's interoceanic corridor—a plan to connect the Atlantic to the Pacific for industrial purposes much like the Panama Canal but with a series of ports and rails The plan could be executed in as soon as 2 years At risk is not just Punta Conejo's wave animals and the rest of the area's ecosystem in the nearby Tehuantepec Isthmus may also become unwarranted casualties of the project Previous plans for Mexico's interoceanic corridor proposed expanding the already existent port in the town of Las Salinas a plan with a much less destructive impact Surbana Jurong proposed rerouting through Punta Conejo because it would cost less owner of Punta Escondida Surf Camp/co-owner of Punta Conejo Resort “It’s a lot harder to buy properties from the thousand-or-so guys that live there [Las Salinas] than it would be to just pay a couple landowners at Conejo,” Frey told Surfline the new administration decided to cancel that old port extension and now they want to make the channel from the first jetty wedge by Conejo almost all the way to Punta Chivo We are sure that kind of construction that requires big containers for ships will destroy the some of the most well-known Environmental impact studies of Surbana Jurong's plan have yet to be released Many locals are calling for an open and respectful dialogue with the Mexican Government to explore alternatives to the most recent proposal Many are not opposed to the interoceanic corridor development but believe there are options for it's construction that will be less detrimental to the environment and the surf-tourism economy there's a precedent of how to save waves that are in the cross-hairs of development like Punta Conejo Chilean Ramon Navarro was successful in lobbying support to save his beloved big-wave break of Punta de Lobos when it became threatened by establishing it as a World Surf Preserve If there's anyplace in the world that's worthy of becoming another World Surf Preserve it's Salina Cruz' stretch of premier This past week, the southern hemisphere roared to life with back-to-back swells slamming the Mexican coastline and lighting up all the infamous pointbreaks of Salina Cruz With the swells' super steep angle and 18-second interval lots of surfers flew down to capitalize on the swell and a chance to get tubed in boardshorts The peak of the second swell topped out at something like 5.2 feet @18 seconds plenty big enough to close out one of Salina Cruz’s most photogenic spots on the biggest sets It made for some extremely compelling lineup shots and some dramatic doggy-door attempts from surfers that successfully rode the wave from the top of the point until the shorebreak I met Alberto De Lima Castro while staying at Luna Coral Soul Surf and believe he might be the most well-traveled surfer on the planet He’s also an extremely good surfer who oozes style The last time I was down in Salina Cruz in 2016 I met Alejandro Moreda for the first time and linked up with him for some insane shots Seven years later and we’re both doing the same thing again I always know I’m in the right spot when he’s around Carlos Cabrero nabbed the two best waves–both impossibly deep tubes that he navigated perfectly on his backhand before sneaking out the doggy-door Carlos rushed back to his home of Puerto Rico to chase a hurricane swell and had a serious wipeout He’s in good spirits and grateful it wasn’t worse and we are all wishing him a quick recovery is a great backhand tuberider and was on some of the best set waves I watched Gabriela Bryan destroy a wave with one of the best two-turn combos I’ve ever witnessed in person I wasn’t about to miss her getting tubed the following days The sandbars were perfect for rippable surf on the smaller days and this local kid named Jonas was absolutely killing it out there Another local, Nick Ramirez is the son of Cesar (owner of one of the first Salina Cruz surf camps) and is a super capable tube-rider. When the wind went side-offshore and became much more difficult to negotiate, he was one of the only surfers left in the lineup hunting down some of the best tubes on offer when all of the tube-hounds gathered for a morning surf It was quite big (reference slide 1) and timing the sets became a crucial decision to make sure you made it out to the lineup with your board intact Before we left in the truck to explore our morning options I ran down to the shorebreak to shoot the sunrise It was my first up-close look at the swell and needless to say it was huge and super intimidating and became a new friend and surf companion He is definitely dialed in to all the changing conditions and his beautiful surf camp (Luna Coral Soul Surf) is where I’ll be staying whenever I head back down to Salina Cruz again A lazy shutter viewpoint of a rapidly rising swell at sunset Sawyer Lindblad absolutely rips and it was a treat to watch it from the shoulder My buddy Kyle Thiermann came down and we cruised for week He hadn’t been on a surf trip in a while so he took every advantage of the peak of the swell even as the wind made it a bit more treacherous The landscapes in Salina Cruz are larger than life–even with a drone it’s hard to capture the expansiveness of the pointbreaks this wave might be the most fun you could ever have in the ocean This is no mirage; it was really this good I put the camera down and surfed for almost five hours All photos and captions by Ryan “Chachi” Craig Is "NORTH" The Best Surf Photography Book Ever Made? and friends get wildly tubed at one of Mexico’s throatiest sand bottomed slabs Yesterday we published a photo gallery from Ryan “Chachi” Craig, featuring highlight images from a recent swell in Salina Cruz the southern hemisphere roared to life with back-to-back swells slamming the Mexican coastline and lighting up all the infamous pointbreaks of Salina Cruz,” Chachi writes in the intro to his gallery “With the swells' super steep angle and 18-second interval lots of surfers flew down to capitalize on the swell and a chance to get tubed in boardshorts.” Click play above to watch to some of the those surfers including Jake Marshall and Kanoa Igarashi get wildly tubed at one of Mexico's throatiest sand bottomed slabs Igarashi's tube at 1:50 is the wave of the day but the entire edit is filled with highlight tubes Don't miss another headline from SURFER! 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Reporting by David Alire Garcia; Editing by Sumana Nandy Mexico’s state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) is looking at the possibility of entering into a partnership with state oil company Pemex to develop a green hydrogen project head of the CFE’s priority projects division told Bloomberg Línea that the state-owned electricity company sees Pemex as a “commercial partner” with which it could create various green hydrogen “synergies,” given that the state oil company is Mexico’s largest user of hydrogen “It could be a synergy where CFE produces hydrogen [for Pemex] or just the renewable energy for its processes,” she said “… The most important thing is that [the green hydrogen] is used where it is produced,” Cureño said Green hydrogen is hydrogen produced through the electrolysis of water with renewable energy Cureño told Bloomberg Línea that the best place to develop a green hydrogen project would be Pemex’s refinery in Salina Cruz a port city on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca outlined a long-term business  opportunity to produce green hydrogen for both domestic use and export The plan cited the opportunity to form a green hydrogen joint venture with the CFE Oil refineries use hydrogen to produce fuel with lower quantities of sulfur Most refineries use natural gas to produce hydrogen Whereas the common process to create hydrogen generates carbon dioxide there are no emissions associated with the production of green hydrogen Incoming Pemex CEO Víctor Rodríguez Padilla said late last month that the state oil company would play a “fundamental role” in developing renewable energy sources declaring that it “won’t limit itself to making oil and gas condensate as it has always done.” But any effort to produce green hydrogen “faces multiple challenges,” Bloomberg Línea reported The first is the lack of specific regulations in Mexico The Energy Ministry issued green hydrogen guidelines earlier this year but Cureño said that a regulatory framework is still needed to govern the production domestic commercialization and exportation of the gas The CFE official also said that the costs associated with green hydrogen production are currently “very high.” She said that the state-owned electricity company is collaborating with academics in Mexico to develop Mexican technology for the production of green hydrogen to avoid reliance on expensive imported equipment a geoscientist at the National Autonomous University told Bloomberg Línea that obstacles to the success of green hydrogen lie in the low energy efficiency high production cost and corrosive properties of the gas President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum is committed to developing more renewable energy sources in Mexico one of the few points of difference between her and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador who has championed the ongoing use of fossil fuels Sheinbaum, who will take office Oct. 1, has pledged to invest more than US $13 billion in a renewables-focused energy plan If the idea to produce green hydrogen at Pemex’s Salina Cruz refinery eventuates it could contribute to the development of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec as a green hydrogen hub López Obrador said late last year that a Danish fund would invest US $10 billion in a green hydrogen plant in Ixtepec located inland from Salina Cruz on the isthmus between the Pacific coast of Oaxaca and the Gulf coast of Veracruz With reports from Bloomberg Línea Two Houston gas players are to develop an LNG terminal in Mexico.  GFI LNG and Pilot LNG have formed a partnership to develop and operate a small-scale LNG terminal in Salina Cruz on Mexico’s Pacific Coast the facility is anticipated to produce 600,000 gallons of LNG per day The partners anticipate operations to commence in mid-to-late 2027.  The project will deploy a floating storage unit (FSU) with an estimated capacity ranging from 50,000 to 140,000 cu m to be moored inside the newly expanded breakwater in the Port of Salina Cruz.  Salina Cruz will use domestic Mexican gas supply from the Veracruz gulf region with the aim of selling LNG marine fuel deliveries at the Pacific entry of the Panama Canal and into Southern California GFI and Pilot plan to commence front-end engineering and design development for the project this quarter The partners anticipate a 12 to 18-month development and permitting timeline and anticipate announcing a final investment decision in the second half of 2025 Don't have an account? 43,000+ global companies doing business in the region 102,000+ key contacts related to companies and projects news and interviews about your industry in English With the number of ships using LNG continuing to grow and spurring demand two U.S.-based companies partnered to launch a new small-scale LNG terminal in Salina Cruz the project is designed with a focus on speed to market and will be strategically located to serve a key shipping market and operate the LNG bunkering and transshipment terminal which they anticipate will start operations in mid-to-late 2027 The partners anticipate a 12-to-18-month development and permitting timeline and anticipate announcing a Final Investment Decision (FID) in the second half of 2025 The team anticipates an approximate 36-month permitting and construction timeline The project design has been optimized to include modular land-based liquefaction trains and straight-forward mooring and topsides modifications on the newly expanded breakwater in the Port of Salina Cruz the facility is anticipated to produce 600,000 gallons of liquified natural gas(LNG) per day they have decided to use an FSU ranging in capacity of 50,000 - 140,000 cbm for LNG storage The plant will use domestic Mexican gas supplied for the Veracruz gulf region and has the advantage of identified pipeline capacity and gas supply while using a proven liquefaction technology has more than 20 years of experience in Mexico is a clean energy infrastructure developer also has projects in development including the Galveston LNG Bunker Port and the Cork LNG FSRU import terminal which will be located in the Whitegate area at the Port of Cork A joint venture is eyeing Mexico as the site of a new LNG bunkering facility announced they have formed a partnership to develop construct and operate a small-scale LNG terminal in Salina Cruz Both companies believe the Salina Cruz site located on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal is ideally positioned to supply North and Central American bunker and fuel markets A 12-18 month development and permitting timeline and a final investment decision in the second half of 2025 is expected the facility is projected to produce roughly 0.34M tonnes of LNG per year Operations are scheduled to commence mid-to-late 2027 land-based liquefaction equipment and optimised storage The project will deploy a floating storage unit (FSU) with an estimated capacity ranging from 50,000–140,000 m3 to be moored inside the newly expanded breakwater in the Port of Salina Cruz Salina Cruz will use domestic Mexican gas supply from the Veracruz Gulf region to access new high-value markets along the Pacific Coast These premium markets include LNG marine fuel deliveries at the Pacific entry of the Panama Canal and into Southern California Salina Cruz customers can expect competitively priced the GFI team is dedicated to helping bring infrastructure development to Salina Cruz and brings a critically necessary understanding and appreciation for the local community and government,” said Pilot LNG chief executive Jonathan Cook A spokesperson from GFI said the infrastructure planned in Salina Cruz “will not only provide LNG to growing markets seeking cleaner fuel but will also bring millions in direct community investment to the region.” Riviera’s LNG Shipping & Terminals Conference will be held in London, 12 November 2024. Click here for more information on this industry-leading event a massive trade and logistics zone under construction on the 200-mile-wide Isthmus of Tehuantepec López Obrador hinted at plans to realize the isthmus’s potential value as a trade corridor as president-elect, and included them in his National Development Plan, the guiding document of his presidential term, in July of 2019. The following year graters and loaders rolled out to break ground on a spate of projects: new port facilities at Salina Cruz in Oaxaca and Coatzacoalcos in Veracruz; wider highways across the isthmus; 10 tax-free industrial parks; fiber optic cables; and expanded pipelines servicing new gas plants and terminals on the Pacific coast One revamped rail line has already been inaugurated An expansion of existing rail links to Central America is ongoing before going on to list all of the tax incentives for companies looking to set up in the area The isthmus has been trumpeted by the Mexican government as key to unlocking economic growth and encouraging foreign investment in the country’s south while at the same time creating a new barrier against northward migration from Central and South America Support for the megaproject is a political winner in Mexico. López Obrador’s approval rating hovered in the mid-60s for most of his last two years in office And though the TIC was not completed during his term Sheinbaum’s election means construction will continue for at least another six years politicians and businesspeople in the Isthmus region have thrown their support behind the project the story is not as simple as the golden tale of prosperity being spun from México’s highest office Resistance to the project — which in recent years has taken the form of blockades protests and legal actions — is rarely reported by the media and seldom discussed in Mexico City Although the federal government claims to have consulted with local communities before construction began the process was widely considered rushed and flawed “The López Obrador government promoted a consultation just like the ones carried out by the corrupt neoliberals where the [process] didn’t make it down to the people who actually live in the territories,” said Carlos Sánchez a community radio station in the city of Juchitán They just collected their ‘yesses’ and left in a matter of hours.” Locals say the protests are meant to draw attention to the fact they were never given the details needed to make informed decisions about the future of their territory Attempts by communities to get information about the kind of industry and environmental impacts the megaproject will bring has already proven deadly The communities of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec — together with those fighting the Mayan Train another major rail project in southern México in the hands of the Army — have shot to the top of the list of the deadliest places to be a land defender in Mexico Official statements suggesting that resistance to the project undermines AMLO’s presidency and agenda has only worsened the situation for communities opposing the project lies 80 miles north of the Pacific coast along the trans-isthmus highway Founded in 1906 on the eve of the Mexican Revolution as a railway town it has long been a sleepy stop on the tracks between the Atlantic and Pacific The community now buzzes with activity connected to railway renovation construction of a 179-hectare industrial park that will sit at the heart of the Trans-Isthmus Corridor is expected to get underway the head of the Union of Indigenous Communities in the Northern Region of the Isthmus a group founded in the 1980s to support the struggles of Zapotec and Mixe communities against powerful landowners Sitting at a table under a thatched roof within the walled and guarded UCIZONI compound Beas explained how an influx of state and nonstate actors has shifted the local balance of power and enforced a violent crackdown on activism “Power in this region in the hands of the secretary of the Marines… But organized crime has also been used as a battering ram to pressure communities to hand over their lands,” said Beas Torres “We see organized crime as the armed wing of the state.” To illustrate he describes a recent forced eviction of community members and land defenders in the nearby town of Mogoñé Viejo which involved a joint operation by state police the Marines and masked individuals in plainclothes They also worry about the future of security and public safety the government vision for the isthmus — the maquilas the militarization — conjures the specter of Mexico’s most notorious border city “This is what happened in Ciudad Juarez,” said Nisaguie Abril Flores Cruz an activist and member of the Assembly of Indigenous Peoples in Defense of Land and Territory in the Isthmus While giving me a ride to the bus station after we spoke Beas Torres mentioned a less discussed goal of the megaproject one he believes is shared equally by México City and Washington “The goal is to move the border down,” he said As his truck bumped over the railroad tracks running through Matías Romero The idea that the Trans-Isthmus corridor could serve as a border to contain migration toward the United States might sound far-fetched. But AMLO’s national development plan describes the TIC and the Mayan Train as “curtains” that can help stem the tide of migrants heading north In this vision, railway tracks and associated infrastructure would serve as a strategic choke point in the path of migrants. The government has also stated its belief that job creation in the region will encourage would-be migrants to stay put. There are already 3,000 Mexican Marines deployed along the 200-mile stretch in addition to police and National Guardsmen The Isthmus of Tehuantepec has tantalized powerful men for centuries After defeating the Aztec Empire in what is now Mexico City the conquistador Hernán Cortés recommended to King Carlos V that the skinniest part of Mexico serve to connect the Atlantic and Pacific newly independent Mexico sought to promote a trade corridor across the Isthmus as a means of encouraging white settlement in the majority Indigenous area After surveying the crossing at the turn of the 20th century Dictator Porfirio Díaz built a train line that moved a million tons of cargo a year but his dream of building up the isthmus collapsed with the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s the idea of connecting the two coasts has been floated at least eight times Jaime Torres Fragoso at the Isthmus University But only under López Obrador has everything aligned — geopolitics the climate and the election of his protegé — to break the impasse and turn the old dreams into a reality At an International Development Bank Forum in November Mexico’s Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena said Amazon has already announced a commitment to invest in the industrial parks to be built in the Isthmus It is the expropriation of communal lands for industrial parks that’s become the most contentious part of the government’s plans in the Isthmus. Last May, the federal government purchased 331 hectares of communal land for the industrial park in San Blas Atempa. While claiming to have sought Free Prior and Informed Consent community members vehemently deny they were properly informed granting the Zapotec community a writ of protection that stopped the project from going forward But the ruling did nothing to protect the residents of Puente Madera from the state crackdown that followed In February, local activist David Hernández Salazar — who was criminalized along with 17 other members of his community — was sentenced to 46 and a half years in prison for opposing the free trade area in San Blas Atempa The arson and intentional injury charges against Hernández Salazar were brought by the Municipality of San Blas Atempa and the National Agrarian Registry and concerned events at which he was not present are facing criminal charges as a consequence of their opposition to the project On July 4 of last year, the body of a member of the Mixtequilla Civil Resistance named Noel López Gallegos was found in a vacant lot in Santa María Mixtequilla. According to a report from CEMDA he was targeted for his work opposing the expropriation of over 500 hectares of communal land and seeking accountability for land payments Nine of López Gallegos’ MCR colleagues were arrested in January when the Zapotec town was flooded with Marines was jailed until being released last week after a federal judge threw out the charges against him Frustrated with tallying attacks against defenders co-coordinator with the Veracruz-based group Diverse Territories for Life last summer toured the isthmus with a delegation representing 23 civil society organizations During three days of visits to five communities in the path of the corridor she says the group was followed and photographed by members of the Mexican Marines in what they interpreted as acts of intimidation “If that’s how an observer mission is treated what is the climate like for local land defenders?” and the need for independent journalism has never been greater A new administration is openly attacking free press — and the stakes couldn’t be higher Independent journalism like Truthdig doesn't just report the news — it helps cultivate a better future Your tax-deductible gift powers fearless reporting and uncompromising analysis we can protect democracy and expose the stories that must be told Your feedback is important in helping us keep our community safe Don't miss out on the latest investigations provocative insights and original reporting from a progressive perspective — delivered straight to your inbox Thanks, I’m not interested ' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " Kanoa Igarashi and Friends Remind Us WhyEndless sand-bottom right point breaks Mexico has long been a favorite destination for surfers looking for perfect waves and tropical weather Mexico boasts a trove of world-class waves on its Pacific coast all the way from Tijuana to the Guatemalan border one could argue that among all that quality surf In a recent strike mission to catch a bombing southern hemisphere swell and friends provided more evidence that backs up this claim overhead tubes across one of the area's famed sand-bottomed points — the stuff many surfers only dream about If this video of gaping Salina Cruz barrels can't convince you to jump on a flight to Oaxaca Lloyd's List is part of Maritime Intelligence This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Maritime Insights & Intelligence Limited registered in England and Wales with company number 13831625 and address c/o Hackwood Secretaries Limited Lloyd’s List Intelligence is a trading name of Maritime Insights & Intelligence Limited Lloyd’s is the registered trademark of the Society Incorporated by the Lloyd’s Act 1871 by the name of Lloyd’s For high-quality copies or electronic reprints for distribution to colleagues or customers please call UK support at +44 (0)20 3377 3996 / APAC support at +65 6508 2430 The Isthmus Corridor is part of the larger Tehuantepec Isthmus programme a development project carried out by the Mexican government The scope of the project means it should be able to rival the Panama Canal  A subscription is required to continue reading this content Your username does not meet the requirements Sorry - public email accounts are not allowed An account with that username already exists Unfortunately we've not been able to process your registration Your question has been successfully sent to the email address below and we will get back as soon as possible This article has been sent to my@email.address and I sure have learned the hard way about how to make a good trip happen…” “I have been traveling the world as a surfer for more than 20 years now Many people probably know Josh first as a professional surfer, and second from booking a trip to Salina Cruz Although no one can claim to be perfect at what they do its definitely fair to say that Josh works hard to ensure that his clients have a great trip down to Mexico “Working with the Las Palmeras clients has been fun I made a ton of new friends and it feels good when someone calls you telling you how great their trip was.” Says Josh Through working as a travel agent for Las Palmeras Surf Camp over the last two years Josh is beginning build relationships with new places around the world “We are going to start out small for the time being” says Josh “but the idea is to have connections in places that I have experience traveling to Our first and foremost location right now is Las Palmeras Surf Camp. So far we have had an incredible start to 2012, with almost constant swell since the end of March. Late April and early May are already lining up with back to back swells, and the sand is incredible right now according to David. Check Las Palmeras Surf Camp's section on Mulcoytravel.com The next location that we are working with is Playa Negra Josh's old friend Tony Roberts of photography fame has started a camp down in Playa Negra which is based around the central wave in town but specializes in getting the client into uncrowded waves and Costa Rica has lost a lot of the attention it once had to other places like Mexico and Nicaragua “It seems less crowded now than 5 years ago and we are finding new spots after surfing in this area for more than 15 years…” Take a look here to get more information on Playa Negra Our final location for the now is Kandui Villas® in the Mentawai Island chain Not much needed to be said about the quality of surf in the Mentawais but we will say that Kandui Villas is a high end land camp/resort situated right in “The Playground” of Kandui Take a look here to learn more about Kandui Villas Thanks for taking the time to read this far into the email, and if you have a minute, take a look at the new site www.mulcoytravel.com and like us on Facebook! , opens new tabReporting by Ana Isabel Martinez and Noé Torres; Additional reporting by Stefanie Eschenbacher; Editing by Drazen Jorgic LEER ARTÍCULO EN ESPAÑOL and conservation groups denounced the presence of oil and hydrocarbons on different beaches near the Port of Salina Cruz The initial oil spill extended approximately 10 kilometers “We have confirmed reports that the crude has reached Playa La Bamba 25 Km SW away from the spill source,” said Gino Passalacqua Oceanographer and Scientific Advisor to Save The Waves “Birds covered in oil were found in Bahías de Huatulco and Morro Ayuta 105 Km and 68 Km away from the source of the spill The exact volume of oil spilled and the impacted area remains unknown.” and Salinas del Marqués wetland are located within the Gulf of Tehuantepec which is considered one of the Centers of Biological Activity of the Mexican Pacific Coast These coastal ecosystems not only provide habitat for endemic and vulnerable species but are also economically vital areas for the local fishermen Surf tourism also provides a sustainable income source for nearby communities PEMEX will hire fishermen and residents of Playa Brasil and Salinas del Marqués to clean up the oil spill This job could last between one to six months depending on the magnitude of the spill and the environmental conditions the fishing activities and extraction of mollusks are suspended The protection of Punta Conejo and the surrounding habitats is of the utmost importance to avoid the destruction of the ecosystem and the deterioration of local livelihoods Save The Waves has been working with the community of Playa Brasil to propose a conservation project that guarantees the protection of biodiversity This recent event highlights the importance of protecting this surf ecosystem and how large-scale industrial projects could negatively impact the region Save The Waves has developed a strategic campaign plan to create a protected area around Punta Conejo Our goal is to designate this ecosystem as an internationally recognized and legally protected site to prevent the destruction of the ecosystem due to proposed plans for an industrial port adjacent to the breaking wave “Punta Conejo is surrounded by beautiful but also vulnerable coastal ecosystems This area is not only the home to many species including the leatherback and olive ridley sea turtles it is also home to many people whose livelihoods depend on the coastal resources,” said Mara Arroyo Surf Protected Area Network Manager for Save The Waves “A conservation project in Punta Conejo will prevent further threats to the wave and the local livelihoods and will contribute to conserving this unique and important ecosystem” Save The Waves also urges local residents and nearby witnesses to download and use the Save The Waves App Available to local organizations and communities this mobile tool will help citizens to track the impacts of the oil spill and support the ongoing efforts to map the impacts in affected communities IMPORTANT NOTE: Please remember that oil is an extremely hazardous substance and you should avoid any exposure to it Do not enter contaminated sites or the ocean if there are any signs of oil Pictures should always be taken at a safe distance from the impacted area surfistas y grupos de conservación denunciaron la presencia de hidrocarburo en diversas playas cercanas al Puerto de Salina Cruz El derrame se extendió aproximadamente 10 kilómetros “Hemos confirmado que el crudo ha llegado a Playa La Bamba oceanógrafo y asesor científico de Save The Waves “Se encontraron aves cubiertas de petróleo en Bahías de Huatulco y Morro Ayuta Se desconoce el volumen exacto de petróleo derramado y el área afectada” Playa Guelaguichi y el humedal de Salinas del Marqués se encuentran dentro del Golfo de Tehuantepec que es considerado como uno de los Centros de Actividad Biológica del Pacífico mexicano Playa Azul y la laguna de Salinas del Marqués no solo brindan hábitat para especies endémicas sino que también son ecosistemas económicamente vitales para los pescadores locales Pemex contratará a pescadores y pobladores de Playa Brasil Playa Azul y Salinas del Marqués para limpiar el derrame de petróleo Este trabajo podría durar de uno a seis meses Mientras tanto quedan suspendidas las actividades de pesca y de extracción de moluscos como los ostiones La protección de Punta Conejo y el hábitat que lo rodea, es de suma importancia para evitar la destrucción del ecosistema y deterioro en los medios de vida locales. Save The Waves ha trabajado con la comunidad de Playa Brasil para proponer un proyecto de conservación que garantice la protección de la biodiversidad el ecosistema y las economías que dependen de él Esta reciente situación destaca la importancia de proteger este ecosistema de surf y muestra cómo los proyectos industriales a gran escala podrían tener un impacto negativo en la región A traves de nuestra coalición hemos desarrollado un plan estratégico para crear una Area Natural Protegida alrededor de Punta Conejo Nuestra meta es designar este ecosistema como zona legalmente protegida e internacionalmente reconocida para prevenir su destrucción por los planes de la construcción de un puerto Industrial “Punta Conejo está rodeada de increíbles ecosistemas costeros Esta área no solo es el hogar de una gran variedad de especies como la tortuga laúd y la tortuga golfina sino que también es el hogar de muchas personas cuyo sustento depende de los recursos costeros” Gerente de la Red de Áreas Protegidas de Surf para Save The Waves “Un proyecto de conservación en Punta Conejo evitará nuevas amenazas a la ola el hábitat y los medios de vida locales y contribuirá a conservar este valioso ecosistema” Save The Waves también pone a disposición de las comunidades y organizaciones locales la aplicación móvil Save The Waves a través de la cual los ciudadanos pueden rastrear los impactos de este derrame y apoyar esfuerzos para mapear los impactos en las comunidades afectadas NOTA IMPORTANTE: Recuerda que el petróleo es una sustancia extremadamente peligrosa y debes evitar cualquier exposición a ella No ingreses a sitios contaminados o al océano si hay signos de presencia de petróleo Las fotografías siempre deben tomarse a una distancia segura del área afectada campaign alerts and news from our Coalition around the world and 10% off your first purchase at the Save The Waves Shop Privacy Policy   |  Terms & Conditions Powered by Team of Horses   |   ©2015-2025 Save The Waves Coalition News & Reviews News Wire Mexico launches Interoceanic Train service Route across Isthmus of Tehuantepec is envisioned as competition for Panama Canal Mexico has inaugurated passenger service on a new rail line operations began for the Interoceanic Railroad It is the key piece of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec a $2.8 billion project that also includes expansion of the ports at the two endpoints as well as creation of a series of industrial parks and upgraded highways The rail line and corridor have been championed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who also led the construction of the controversial Maya Train line that opened last week [see “Long delays, late trains mark start of Maya Train service,” Trains News Wire A branch line connecting the Interoceanic Corridor and the Maya train is slated to be completed next year López Obrador marked the line’s opening at an event in Salina Cruz, Mexico News Daily reports before making what was expected to be an 8-hour trip on the first train to Coatzacoalcos While the route will feature passenger service its primary objective is to provide a freight alternative to shipping through the Panama Canal Freight service will begin at a later date “All the Asian countries are very interested,” López Obador said Friday, according to a Reuters report López Obrador said Mexico’s navy would manage and provide security for the corridor project The army has a similar role with the Maya Train In Panama several years of drought is affecting the availability of water to operate it and so there are a limited number of passages through the locks And even with the new locks there are container ships that exceed the size of the lock chambers Looks like a de-motored Budd SPV is being leased from Railexco JOHN …… History of these units Check the link in the next to last paragraph It has info as to the history of the equipment Members enjoy 15% off any purchase in our store. Join Today Get updates and special offers via email from Trains.com brands 2024 ) Save The Waves Coalition has launched a new phase of its ongoing campaign to protect the iconic Oaxacan point break Punta Conejo: a proposal for a 3500+ acre protected area The proposed Punta Conejo Protected Area will preserve and safeguard over 3,500 acres of land 6.5 miles of coastline including 3 surf breaks (Punta Conejo Preserving this surf ecosystem would also conserve habitat for over 40 species of bird and 4 species of turtle Save The Waves and their local partners are advocating the first-ever coastal “Área de Protección de Flora y Fauna ” in Oaxaca “Everything we have been working for in this campaign is coming to a turning point is preserve not only the amazing wave that is Punta Conejo It’s the unique intersection of the surf ecosystem that we believe is worth protecting,” said Nik Strong-Cvetich Punta Conejo is a renowned surf break along the coastline of Southern Oaxaca and has been at risk from multiple threats including the construction of an industrial port project Save The Waves teamed up with Reservas de Surf Mexico and Union de Surfistas y Salvavidas de Salina Cruz to find alternative solutions to the port project that would have a lower impact on the surf ecosystem and the local economies that depend on it Together, they launched an international petition to raise awareness and garnered over 290,000 signatures of support Save The Waves has hosted over 25 community workshops and meetings across 4 villages in the area of Salina Cruz to find the solution that would save Punta Conejo and the surrounding area joint efforts have resulted in the communities voting and advocating for the establishment of a coastal conservation area that includes wetlands Conservation Program Manager at Save The Waves our coalition aims to safeguard these ecosystems.” Save The Waves Coalition and local partners are proposing legitimate and legal protection for not only the wave at Punta Conejo but the surrounding coastal area in the first-ever coastal “Área de Protección de Flora y Fauna ” in Oaxaca “An urgent decision must be made to protect the site from commodification and deforestation to guarantee the ecological services on which its inhabitants depend The protection of wetlands and mangroves is an issue of national importance to fight against climate change and water scarcity,” said Efraín Olachea Environmental Lawyer and STW coordinator of the campaign Save The Waves is once again reopening the petition for signatures noting that international petitions such as this can go a long way in public awareness and even leverage in legislation “I want to see Punta Conejo protected because it is a wonder of surfing not only in Mexico but in the entire world It must be preserved and protected so that it can be enjoyed by all human beings forever,” said Uriel Camacho one of the local leaders and longtime Conejo defender “We should all sign the petition since it is everyone’s responsibility to protect and keep safe these types of wonders that nature has given us By signing you help make the world better” To support the proposal to create a protected area for Punta Conejo and lend your voice to the campaign, sign the petition here Learn more about the #SalvemosPuntaConejo campaign here Editor’s Note: This feature is supported by our friends at Mizu A trip to Salina Cruz has become surfing’s version of a milk run I’ve been doing it every year since 2006 without a scratch The violent Narco caricature of Mexico always felt like a world apart from the peaceful Oaxacan surf experience A friendly guide picked you up in a suburban at the cute thatched roof airport in Huatulco and kept you fed and hydrated the whole time Because nothing is simple or easy in 2020 anywhere in the world That’s especially true deep in Mainland Mexico during a once-in-a-century pandemic Flying down there in August with zero intel for the conditions on the ground seemed risky at best But a two-month lockdown in California followed by a five-week mid-summer flat spell were desperate times that called for desperate measures So I booked a flight with four aspiring teenage pro surfers –Taro Watanabe and Ian Gottron – who wanted me to film them riding better waves than they could get at home Direct flights from Tijuana to Huatulco were only $120 round trip To get there these days you can get dropped off at the CBX on the U.S side and simply stroll across a bridge into the Tijuana airport When we rolled our board bags on carts to the other side we found a terminal packed with other surfers Everyone on board dutifully wore masks until the attendants came by with drinks and snacks and then all bets were off The worst-case scenario came into my mind: catch COVID on this jet get all of our group sick and then realize that no one has a chance of getting a flight back home for weeks A majority of the beaches in the area were closed to foreigners because they’re located near villages of mostly indigenous people The centuries-long history of the white man bringing disease and death isn’t something they’ve forgotten we’d need to hire a boat and we were forbidden from setting foot onshore So early the next morning we chartered a fishing panga from the Huatulco harbor and motored an hour down the coast to Barra de la Cruz   A Barra local paddled up to our boat right away and wanted cash for us to be able to surf there which seemed reasonable until another guy and then another showed up and also wanted money lives at a subsistence level and these local surfers having been cut off from the world since March We ventured south to Salina Cruz the next day by car The kids were lured by reports of thumping beach breaks that are offshore in the predominant north winds We tried to check a spot thirty minutes east of town but ran into a series of makeshift roadblocks with sticks and stones scattered on the highway Apparently the citizens of two rival hamlets had gone to war overnight with machetes over land rights and twenty people were dead We drove out early in the morning to Punta Conejo the spiritual home of surfing in Salina Cruz but we were happy to be at a spot that felt safe the municipal police arrived and told us that this beach was now closed These cops gave the bad news in a friendly way They didn’t have guns and they didn’t rush us to leave They seemed to enjoy their assignment for the day So we left Conejo and did something we shouldn’t have done Chemel spoke to the owner of a small restaurant who said we were free to surf there onshore waves at Chivo on a rising swell over the next four hours without incident a group of men appeared way down the beach Looking at them through the telephoto lens we saw they were federal soldiers toting AK-47s and were coming for us They likely knew we had been at Conejo in the morning and had defied the police’s order to stay off the beaches Unlike the friendly unarmed municipal cops we’d met earlier these federales weren’t here for a day at the beach They told Chemel to drive back to the small restaurant we were at earlier where their comandante was waiting to have a word with him He’s the kind of tough guy you want on your side anywhere Now his hands were shaking and his voice had a slight tremble as we quietly talked on the drive back to the restaurant I had a car full of teenagers who knew something was wrong He put $150 worth of bills in one hand and put another stack of notes in the center console of his SUV We were greeted by another squad of armed men and their comandante The guy had greyish stubble on his face and a cold and dead quality to his eyes He looked straight out of central casting for a murderous boss on a cartel-themed show he said to Chemel in a cocky way that felt like a threat I didn’t think the $300 or whatever we’d scraped together would be enough for him I took the kids into the restaurant while Chemel haggled with the commander the kids and I just stared at each other across a plastic table in the sand and didn’t say much Chemel told us he got us out it if without having to resort to the second stash of cash in the truck We could even come back and surf there again the next day if we wanted It would have been worse if this had happened in the U.S Surfers in Malibu got fined $1,000 and locked up for the crime of riding waves during the L.A Chemel said the comandante’s first offer was $1,500 and it took a while to talk him down “Did you think you were going to jail?” I asked him “I thought all of us were going to jail,” he said “Does that guy work for the cartel?” I asked We’d had enough drama in Salina Cruz so we drove back to Huatulco and booked a boat the next morning for Barra The port was closed in the morning because a Category 4 hurricane was due to move past the coastline during the day the skies were clear and we figured the storm had already moved out to sea We drove out to Barra in the panga and it was empty Everything was just as we’d hoped until a few bands of fluffy clouds rolled in over the mountains Sunny skies quickly turned dark with rain I watched as Ian Gottron did a perfect off the lip with a giant flash of lightning behind him It looked like an airbrushed psychedelic painting on a 1970s van White bolts shot down directly above our heads The thunder was so loud it shook the beach like an earthquake having come here straight from the airport He paddled out into the maelstrom and traded waves with Max and Ian The rope line to the anchor had gotten stuck in the propellor Waves from the wind and rising swell were flooding the vessel I had visions of us abandoning the boat and spending the night onshore I padded to the panga through the surf as fast as I could with lightning flashing all around me Somehow Chemel and Pedro got the engine fixed and steered us through the teeth of the storm We drove two hours north and hunkered down for the rest of the trip in and around a classic Mexican surf town and expat haven life there felt as if it was approaching normal The swells marched in like they always do across a deep water trench They reared up and roared across the Playa Zicatela stretch – sun-kissed and smooth in the cool offshore winds each morning Seeing the tubes roll in like clockwork felt like a kind of tonic and economic despair that have been left everywhere in its wake the surfers will find a way to be there too you hold onto anything that is and try not to let go The federal government on Monday announced a range of tax incentives designed to attract companies to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec trade corridor between Salina Cruz Companies will only have to pay 50% of regular income tax during their subsequent three years of operations adding that the discount could reach 90% “if established employment goals are reached.” The ministry also said there will be an opportunity for “accelerated depreciation of investments” during a company’s first six years in operation and that business operations conducted in the isthmus region will be exempt from value-added tax (VAT) the recovery of VAT paid on purchases made outside … [the isthmus region] will be allowed for four years … [and] companies will be able to access existing foreign trade benefits such as the exemption of VAT on temporary imports of supplies 0% tax on the export of goods and services and administrative facilities that reduce costs,” the SHCP said The ministry said that the tax incentives are designed to “promote economic development in one of the most disadvantaged regions of the country – the southeast.” They will be available to companies that operate in a range of sectors including automotive regional development and growth of laggard economic sectors are a priority particularly in the most disadvantaged or marginalized areas,” the SHCP said “The objective is to reduce regional inequalities and promote investment in … [the isthmus] creating jobs and opportunities with decent wages for the local population,” it said President López Obrador said last week that a tendering process for the 10 industrial parks planned for the Isthmus of Tehuantepec will be launched in the middle of June The Interoceanic Corridor project also includes the modernization of the railroad and highways between Salina Cruz and Coatzacoalcos and the expansion of the ports in those cities The establishment of the trade corridor – touted by the government as an alternative to the Panama Canal – will allow Mexico to become a “wold shipping power,” Navy Minister José Rafael Ojeda Durán said last week The navy is contributing to the project and will be given control of the trade corridor once it is completed López Obrador said last Thursday that freight trains will begin running on the new trans-isthmus railroad in August and that passenger services will begin at a later date With reports from El Economista  This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page A week after the Maya Train began running between Campeche and Cancún a modernized railroad linking the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico coasts across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec began operations on Friday President López Obrador inaugurated the Interoceanic Railroad between Salina Cruz at an event in the former city attended by various Mexican officials billionaire businessman Carlos Slim and others politicians and rulers have been dreaming” about connecting the two oceans for “centuries,” López Obrador said The railroad is the centerpiece of the US $2.8 billion Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT), a government project that also includes the expansion of the ports in Salina Cruz and Coatzacoalcos, highway upgrades and the establishment of 10 industrial parks Both passenger and freight trains will operate between Salina Cruz and Coatzacoalcos The government is touting the corridor as an alternative to the Panama Canal given that it will connect the Pacific and Atlantic oceans across a relatively narrow strip of land could be unloaded in Salina Cruz and put on a train for a journey of approximately 300 kilometers to Coatzacoalcos It could then be reloaded onto another ship before continuing on to the Gulf or Atlantic coasts of the United States Navy Minister José Rafael Ojeda Durán said in June that Mexico will become a “world shipping power” thanks to the construction of the trade corridor “estimate the rail line will be able to ship just a fraction of what the [Panama] canal moves.” López Obrador asserted that “all the Asian countries are very interested” in using the new railroad to move freight “because Panama is at capacity.” The approximately 80-kilometer-long Panama Canal has been affected by drought this year, leaving it without enough water to raise and lower ships and “forcing officials to slash the number of vessels they allow through,” according to The New York Times López Obrador on Friday once again confirmed that the navy will take charge of the CIIT. “All these [infrastructure] projects are being built with money from the budget We’re just the managers of the people’s money … and we have to leave all these projects in safe custody so we’ve decided that the Ministry of the Navy will take charge of the comprehensive isthmus project,” he said before boarding the train shortly after midday for what was expected to be an eight-hour trip to Coatzacoalcos Trains providing passenger services across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec have three classes: tourist (turista) executive (ejecutivo) and managerial (gerencial) The price of tickets is calculated depending on the distance a passenger wants to travel Completing the entire trip between Salina Cruz and Coatzacoalcos costs 457 pesos (about US $27) in tourist class 608 pesos (about US $36) in executive class and 1,554 pesos (about US $91) in managerial The level of comfort and the availability of amenities vary depending on the class Travel time is expected to be shorter than the eight hours scheduled for Friday’s inaugural run Tickets are available for purchase on the Interoceanic Railroad website and at the 10 stations Tickets for services this year have already sold out There are a total of 10 stations along the railroad which runs just over 300 kilometers between Salina Cruz and Coatzacoalcos According to information presented by the government on Friday passenger trains will have the capacity to transport approximately 400 people which will start running on the railroad at a later date will have the capacity to move 5,200 tonnes of cargo in 65 railcars López Obrador asserted that the opening of the railroad marks the commencement of a “new stage” in Mexico before remarking that “it’s not for our generation “… We’re on the way out … but we need to leave a future with possibilities of development for the new generations we have to think of those coming behind us López Obrador noted that the original trans-isthmus railroad opened in 1907 The Panama Canal opened seven years later in 1914 and “became the most important passage” for the movement of freight from the Pacific to the Atlantic “another passage” is “essential,” López Obrador said The president has long asserted that his government’s infrastructure projects in the south and southeast of the country the Maya Train railroad and the new Pemex refinery in Tabasco will help spur economic development in a historically disadvantaged region López Obrador acknowledged there has been opposition to the project and said that the government reached agreements with residents who had to vacate their homes due to the construction of stations and the resumption of train services across the isthmus “There were places where the tracks had been invaded alternatives were given to those who lived close [to the railroad],” he said “This is a project for the communities through which the train passes we’re going to continue helping them,” López Obrador added Two additional railroads that will connect with the Salina Cruz-Coatzacoalcos line (known as Line Z) will open next year A 328-kilometer-long section of the FA Line between Coatzacoalcos and Palenque is scheduled to begin operations next June director of the Interoceanic Train project That line will connect with Section 1 of the Maya Train railroad The FA Line will also connect Coatzacoalcos to Dos Bocas where Pemex’s new oil refinery is located The 476-kilometer-long K Line between Ciudad Ixtepec Oaxaca — a city about 60 kilometers north of Salina Cruz — and Ciudad Hidalgo is scheduled to open in the final quarter of next year The opening dates for the two lines announced by Morales on Friday are later than ones cited by López Obrador in September The president is an avowed train enthusiast, and would like to see a revitalization of Mexico’s once extensive passenger train network Last month, he published a decree that established the provision of passenger train services as a priority for national development taking a first step toward achieving his goal of restoring Mexico’s passenger train network to its former glory The spill was first detected on October 23 According to reports, on October 23, a fuel oil spill hit beaches in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, Mexico.The areas most impacted include Punta Conejo Salinas del Marqués and Azul beaches in Salina Cruz Local authorities said that the spill originated from a Pemex offshore platform It’s a devastating ecological blow — the region’s ecosystem is a vulnerable one — and the implications are as far-reaching as the spill itself “We have confirmed reports that the crude has reached Playa La Bamba, 25 kilometers southwest from the spill source,” said Gino Passalacqua, Oceanographer and Scientific Advisor to Save The Waves 105 km and 68 km away from the source of the spill The affected coastal ecosystems provide habitat for the many and varied species in the area they’re important for the fishermen who work in them provides an income to many of the residents Officials were first alerted to the spill by local fishermen who noticed a foul smell in the water and saw that the sand was streaked with an oily substance the Civil Protection chief for Salina Cruz said that Playa Brasil was the worst affected beach Pemex has been tasked with cleaning up the mess “We already told Pemex what’s happening and the request is for them to start cleaning the beaches immediately,” Ramírez said “What happened is concerning and cleaning up is urgent.” and beaches will be closed until it’s safe for them to open The closures will affect not only fishermen but many of the beachside businesses that rely on tourists The cleanup is expected to take between one and six months and possibly longer should the spill be larger than initially suspected and businessmen during the inauguration of Line Z of the Interoceanic Train In the same event an agreement was announced for the construction of a green hydrogen plant by the Danish company Helax Istmo The south-southeast of Mexico is being reconfigured territorially with a wave of transportation megaprojects—the Interoceanic Train and the Maya Train—whose corridors are connected to energy projects another wave of projects is advancing full steam ahead yet with less visibility compared to the major energy projects.  the collective GeoComunes mapped out and presented the restructuring of the energy sector currently taking place in Mexico specifically during the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador to sustain the primary megaprojects being pushed by his administration “The projects being developed in the two most isolated regions of the country are related to territorial planning that in spite of the discourse of change and radicalism seeks to strengthen the economic sectors that during the entire wave of neoliberalism were deployed in these regions: tourism and commercial transportation,” sustains the report the regional reorganization is linked to the “development agenda led by the United States and territorial reorganization to accommodate nearshoring and the use of Mexican territory as a platform for the exportation of US natural gas,” they report You might be interested in- US Ambassador to Mexico Leads Meeting in Oaxaca to Advance the Interoceanic Corridor Megaproject One of the pivotal energy projects is the Puerta al Sureste underwater 715-kilometer-long gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico considered in the investigation to be the pipeline which “articulates together the territorial reorganization in the south-southeast.” The project is being pushed by the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) and by TC Energy (previously known as TransCanada) They seek to transport 1,390 million cubic feet of natural gas daily from Tuxpan to Coatzacoalcos in Veracruz This gas pipeline is the extension of another underwater pipeline that is already built and functioning with which natural gas is imported from Texas to Tuxpan in Veracruz.  The natural gas to be transported in this pipeline will provide for the ten planned industrial parks and also the liquified natural gas terminals that will be used to export gas to Europe “It also seeks to expand the capacity to export energy and gas coming from the United States toward other parts of the world convert the south-southeast region not only into a manufacturing platform but also one of exportation for US gas,” the report sustains the projected increase in the consumption of natural gas is associated with the expansion of other gas transportation infrastructure projects Today the structure of energy production in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is concentrated in two extremes the production of energy is centered around the industrial and petrochemical zones and is concentrated in the hands of Pemex and private companies like Cydsa This represents nearly a third of the capacity installed in the Isthmus,” mentions the collective The other two thirds are located in the far south of the Isthmus where there are 29 wind farms in operation which occupy 30,000 hectares of territory recognized as communal or ejidal land The grand majority of this production is in the hands of private European companies according to the document “Resumen Ejecutivo Plan Estrategico y Plan Maestro Conceptual del Corredor Interoceanico del Istmo de Tehuantepec,” current levels of production are insufficient The electricity demand of the industrial activities in the Isthmus will multiply by 2.5 between 2030 and 2050 passing from 3,294 to 8,348 million watts per hour per year it is expected that new electric stations in the region will have to be built there isn’t any concrete information about how many stations that will include nor what types of technologies will be used,” said the report of the investigation beyond the ten industrial parks already planned another nineteen parks—ten in Oaxaca and nine in Veracruz—are to be installed later on The reception for company bids interested in investing in the first ten industrial parks was done in June 2023 bids for the remaining industrial parks began Santa María Mixtequilla and Asunción Ixtaltepec—should be mixed parks they will include wind farms to generate electricity  “The wind farms will be built by Mexican or US companies they will be administered by the Federal Electricity Commission and they will have financial investment from United States banks,” says the report from GeoComunes signed an agreement with the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and with the Mexican Navy to install a plant that will develop renewable energies via green hydrogen and green maritime fuels “contributing to Mexico’s objectives of sustainable development as well as the decarbonization of the worldwide shipping industry,” the company tells the media The plant should be built in one of the ten industrial parks planned along the Interoceanic Corridor in Ixtepec since the signing of the Free Trade Agreement in 1992 and throughout the structural reforms in the last three decades the energy policy has maintained the same: “opening up this strategic sector to private capital and making the energy infrastructure adequate in the country to conform to the interests of fossil fuel capital and fossil fuel capital from the United States.”  You might be interested in- Mexican officials announce bids for Interoceanic Corridor industrial zones The investigation done by GeoComunes also covers the energy restructuring in the Yucatan Peninsula and the northeast of the country Topics that we will address in future texts Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Contact us: avispamidia@riseup.net The materials created by Avispa Midia may be reproduced only for non-profit purposes You must acknowledge the authorship and inform about its publication By Railway Gazette International2024-01-04T11:00:00+00:00 MEXICO: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador inaugurated what is termed ‘Line Z’ of the Interoceanic Railway of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec on December 22 The 309 km route connects Coatzacoalcos on the Gulf of Mexico with Salina Cruz on the Pacific seaboard It forms part of a wider three-line network totalling 1 087 km which the national government hopes to renovate and commission in stages by mid-2024 which crosses a mountain range in the south of the country has been rebuilt over the past three years While the railway is expected to handle both freight and passenger traffic the project aims to revive the historic Interoceanic Corridor which was first developed in 1907 to transport goods from the Pacific Ocean to the USA’s east coast around 60 trains per day used the corridor fostering the development of Salina Cruz and Coatzacoalcos Traffic on the corridor started to decline after the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 the railway and related terminal infrastructure are all managed by Ferrocarril del Istmo de Tehuantepec a state-owned enterprise which is part of the Mexican Navy naval forces temporarily occupied part of the railway alignment which was being run under a concession by Ferrosur This dispute was resolved when the government and Grupo México agreed the transfer of 127 km of lines to the Navy The routes affected are El Chapo – Coatzacoalcos the government granted an free eight-year extension of Ferrosur’s concession for the railway linking the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to the port of Veracruz The remaining elements of the Trans-Isthmus Railway project cover the rehabilitation of two other railway lines and the modernisation of four ports The 328 km Line FA links Coatzacoalcos to Palenque and it is due to be inaugurated in March; this will be followed by the 450 km Line K is to link Ixtepec on Line Z with Ciudad Hidalgo on the Guatemalan border Operations are due to start on this route in July 2024 The primary aim of the reconstruction of the Trans-Isthmus Railway is to develop freight traffic through the two ports; investment in the Minatitlán and Salina Cruz oil refineries is also expected to generate more rail flows The government hopes to attract private investment by establishing industrial parks in the Isthmus The plan is to accommodate up to 1·2 million containers per year with the railway offering a cheaper and faster transport option to the Panama Canal one passenger train a day is running on Line Z departing every other day at 7.00 from each terminus and arriving at 14.00 after a 7 h journey the number of trains per day may be increased The fare for the full journey from January 1 is 304 pesos following an introductory discount of 50% offered at the end of December MEXICO: The government has announced plans to invest 157bn pesos in 2025 for the construction of new passenger railways and the development of freight operations on some parts of the network MEXICO: President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum has unveiled her ‘100 Steps for Transformation’ programme which contains the revitalisation of passenger rail services on three major corridors The three services announced earlier this summer are among the seven routes totalling 8 000 km .. MEXICO: A package of 20 proposals for legislative reforms intended to support the restoration and development of passenger services on the existing rail network has been presented to the Chamber of Deputies The proposals announced in February would give the government the power to grant concessions to .. Site powered by Webvision Cloud Mexico’s president said Saturday he hopes for construction of the Jaltipán-Salina Cruz natural gas pipeline to be complete within a year at the most The proposed 500 MMcf/d pipeline would span the Tehuantepec Isthmus where the government is planning a 3 million metric tons/year floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal State power company Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) still must obtain the necessary rights-of-way for the pipeline to go forward said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador during a speech in Salina Cruz the government plans to conduct a tender for construction of the floating storage and production unit (FSRU) “There is an agreement to put a liquefaction plant in Salina Cruz,”he said though he did not name the parties involved CFE last year sought formal expressions of interest from firms in building and operating the pipeline and terminal No announcement has been made as to which firm might undertake the project By developing an LNG export terminal on the Pacific Coast CFE is aiming to export gas sourced via its extensive pipeline network to consumers in Asia “We have a gas contract that allows us to have sufficient volumes to export to Asia but we have it in the Gulf [of Mexico] and we need a pipeline so that here in Salina Cruz we can build a liquefaction plant,” the president said The FSRU would require investment of 60 billion pesos The Salina Cruz terminal is one of several LNG export projects under development or proposed on Mexico’s Pacific Coast meant to capitalize on demand in Asia for North American LNG Imports account for 84% of Mexico’s gas consumption as of February excluding the gas that state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) produces and consumes itself remain skeptical about the logistics and economics behind re-exporting U.S “I absolutely do not see it is feasible because there is no way to bring gas all the way down there,” independent energy analyst Rosanety Barrios told NGI “It requires substantial improvement in the current gas infrastructure and compressor stations Barrios said that Sempra’s proposed Vista Pacífico terminal in Topolobampo, Sinaloa, or Mexico Pacific Ltd.’s project planned for Puerto Libertad Even with sufficient infrastructure in place the transport costs required to move gas from the United States to Salina Cruz would make it difficult for the terminal to be competitive Mexico City-based analyst Gonzalo Monroy expressed a similar view noting that the idea of an LNG export terminal in Salina Cruz has been under discussion for years The original idea was to source the gas from Pemex production in southeastern Mexico The problem is that Pemex now consumes most of the gas it produces to stimulate oil production and for other internal processes “And in that regard…López Obrador is reviving an old idea which still lacks all the infrastructure The government also plans to invest 60 billion pesos in a coker unit at the Salina Cruz refinery FSRU and gas pipeline are all part of López Obrador’s larger Tehuantepec Isthmus Interoceanic Corridor project Andrew joined NGI in 2018 to support coverage of Mexico’s newly liberalized oil and gas sector and his role has since expanded to include the rest of North America Andrew covered Latin America’s hydrocarbon and electric power industries from 2014 to 2018 for Business News Americas in Santiago in journalism and mass communications from the University of Minnesota Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum signed legislation on Wednesday to enshrine the dominance of state-owned hydrocarbons producer Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and government electricity company Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) LNG company Sempra Infrastructure and Mexico’s state-owned utility CFE are to jointly develop energy infrastructure projects in Mexico including the proposed Vista Pacífico LNG project and the potential development of an LNG terminal in Salina Cruz and Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (Comisión Federal de Electricidad announced several agreements to advance the joint development of energy infrastructure projects in Mexico These include the rerouting of the Guaymas-El Oro pipeline in Sonora, the proposed Vista Pacífico LNG project in Topolobampo, Sinaloa, and the potential development of an LNG terminal in Salina Cruz These new deals establish the framework for a joint venture between the companies to enable the restoration of service provided by the Guaymas-El Oro pipeline These agreements also outline the path forward for the Vista Pacífico LNG terminal including the definition of the project’s configuration to advance engineering and permitting efforts the companies are expanding the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed earlier this year to jointly explore the potential development of an LNG terminal in Salina Cruz These development projects would allow CFE to potentially optimise the use of existing natural gas pipeline systems provide additional sources of LNG supply for isolated markets in Mexico and continue to expand LNG supplies to the global market The agreements reflect Sempra Infrastructure and CFE’s commitment to continue advancing energy infrastructure projects that enhance the region’s energy security The agreements for the development of the Vista Pacifico LNG and the proposed LNG project in Salina Cruz are preliminary and non-binding These development projects remain subject to a number of commitments to be satisfied