{"id":1106,"date":"2020-08-20T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2020\/08\/20\/mexican-concession-under-scrutiny\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:14:06","slug":"mexican-concession-under-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2020\/08\/20\/mexican-concession-under-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican concession under scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the port was \u201cprivatized\u201d by one of his predecessors but didn\u2019t name the concessionary, reported <em>Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He questioned how a company had secured such a long hold on the rights. \u201c\u201cObviously, we need to see about getting this concession revoked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A document later posted on Twitter by Lopez Obrador showed the concession was held by API Veracruz, the port administrator created in 1993 by former president Carlos Salinas.<\/p>\n<p>In the tweet, Lopez Obrador said Salinas \u201cprivatized\u201d the port, although API Veracruz is a state-run company under the federal government, according to official public records.<\/p>\n<p>Hutchison Ports ICAVE, part of CK Hutchison Holdings (0001.HK), which recently helped build a new terminal alongside API Veracruz, handles container operations at the port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico\u2019s president aims to revoke a \u201c100-year\u201d concession for the Port of Veracruz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}