{"id":5624,"date":"2018-03-04T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2018\/03\/04\/mexico-on-course-to-double-port-capacity\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:49:22","slug":"mexico-on-course-to-double-port-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2018\/03\/04\/mexico-on-course-to-double-port-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico on course to double port capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, ports have a combined capacity of 470m tonnes, up from 260m tonnes when the plan was first introduced in 2012. The target for this year is to reach 520m tonnes.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest overall project is the new port at Veracruz, in which $1.5m is being invested. This will more than quadruple the port\u2019s capacity to 90m tonnes.<\/p>\n<p>The largest completed new project was at the Port of Tuxpan, which can handle 24m tonnes annually, including more than 700,000 teu and 100,000 finished vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half of 2018, expansion work at the ports of Matamoros and Altamira will be completed, boosting engineered capacity from 15m to 36m tonnes.<\/p>\n<p>On the Pacific coast, work at the Port of Manzanillo is on course for conclusion by the end of June, increasing capacity to 44m tonnes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico\u2019s Programa Nacional de Infraestructura (PNI), or\u00a0National Infrastructure Program, aims to double existing port capacity by the end of 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5624","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\/5624","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=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5626,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions\/5626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}