Major Expansion Project Announced for Port of Progreso

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Source: The Yucatan Times

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum recently announced a project to expand the Port of Progreso in the country’s southeastern state of Yucatan by the end of the year.

The port is located along a busy trade route on the Gulf of Mexico and is known for being a cruise ship harbor and is one of the only offshore deep-water cargo ports in the country. It has a 4.11-mile-long pier and a 4.68-mile-long shipping channel, which is currently 492 feet wide and 36 feet deep.

“We are finally going to make it a reality for the Port of Progreso to be a deep sea port,” Sheinbaum said during a speech on Oct. 20. “We started this year. It will take three years of work because the ground in this area is very hard and special machines are required to make it a deep-sea port, but we will start. It is a joint project between the state government [of Yucatan] and the Mexican government.”

The port connects Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula to key markets in the United States, Europe, and Central and South America.

Officials said The expansion aims to allow the 200-acre port to accommodate larger ships carrying more cargo. The project includes increasing the port’s channel to a width of more than 500 feet and a depth of 47 feet.

Source: The Yucatan Times