{"id":3970,"date":"2014-05-28T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2014\/05\/28\/mexico-to-double-capacity-within-six-years\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:36:16","slug":"mexico-to-double-capacity-within-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2014\/05\/28\/mexico-to-double-capacity-within-six-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico to double capacity within six years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The expansion will begin at the port of Veracruz, which is investing $1.77bn, during which it will double its existing size by partially reclaiming land from the sea. A tender will be issued shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Finance for the project will come from the concessionaires of terminals handling containers, finished vehicles and grain, as well as from service providers.<\/p>\n<p>APM Terminals is investing $1.2bn in L\u00e1zaro C\u00e1rdenas, with up to $300m provided by the International Finance Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr Mart\u00ednez, it makes sense to expand Mexican port facilities, because it is significantly cheaper to move cargo from Asia to the US via Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port infrastructure in Mexico is going to double in capacity over the next six years, according to Ricardo Mart\u00ednez of the Ports and Merchant Marine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3970","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\/3970","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=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3972,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions\/3972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}