Quintana Roo authorities prepare ballast import from Cuba for Tren Maya

Cancun, QR. Before the end of the year, the importation of ballast from Cuba to Quintana Roo to use it in the laying of the track of the Mayan trend.

This has been confirmed by various sources; In the first place, this was reported by Vagner Elbiorn Vega, director of the Integral Port Administration of Quintana Roo (Apiqroo), who also said that the material will arrive at the Puerto Morelos pier.

In the logistics they will be coordinated with state and federal authorities so as not to affect the reef off the coast of the aforementioned pier.

On the other hand, the Cuban News Agency He also confirmed that the first 20,000 tons of rajón stone from the port of Cienfuegos are ready and waiting to be mobilized.

The agency quoted Andrés Díaz Guerrero, head of the Operations Group of the Central Port Services Company, according to which in the open-air warehouses of zone two, in Obourke, there are thousands of tons awaiting shipment to Yucatán .

With the start of commercialization, in the first month they must handle 90,000 tons, which will grow until reaching a rate of 200,000 per month, explained the interviewee.

On November 4, the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, confirmed that for logistical reasons he was already thinking of bringing the ballast for the Mayan trend from Cuba and Belize.

“I am going to comment something so that our adversaries question us. It is very likely that for this section we will bring ballast, which there is, by maritime transport, ”he explained.

“There is a possibility that is being explored, in Puerto Morelos. What we are seeing is if we also reach an agreement with Belize”, explained the president.

The Mayan trend in its Sections 5, 6 and 7 it does not report any work progress due to the technical problems encountered by the project.

Recently, the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, presented a new solution to advance in the construction of the railway, which consists of driving piles under the karstic subsoil of the Mayan jungle, 25 meters deep, to free the subsidence risks in the area of ​​cenotes and underground rivers that runs through the Tulum area in Section 5.

Much of the ballast to be imported from Cuba It will be used precisely for this area of ​​the road that has not yet begun to be built.

estados@eleconomista.mx

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