Another accident strikes Mexico’s Interoceanic Railroad months after fatal derailment

A freight bid mishap occurred connected the Interoceanic Railroad successful confederate Mexico connected Tuesday nighttime little than 7 months aft a rider bid derailment connected the aforesaid enactment successful which 14 radical were killed.

No 1 was injured successful the latest accident, according to the Ministry of the Navy (Semar) and the authorities bureau straight liable for the railroad that connects Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, connected Mexico’s Pacific seashore to Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, connected the Gulf coast.

The mishap — wide reported arsenic a derailment — occurred connected Line Z, arsenic the railroad is called, successful the municipality of Asunción Ixtaltepec, Oaxaca. The El Universal paper published photos showing 1 conception of the bid lying connected its broadside adjacent to the railroad.

Semar and the Isthmus of Tehuantepc Interoceanic Corridor (CIIT), a decentralized nationalist bureau nether the jurisdiction of the Navy Ministry, said successful a connection that an mishap involving “two articulated units” of a freight bid occurred connected Tuesday night. Each articulated portion was made up of 2 bid cars, they said.

Semar and CIIT said that nary 1 was injured successful the incidental and determination was nary interaction connected the section population.

“Safety protocols were instantly activated and specialized unit began maneuvers to region the units and wide the tracks,” the authorities departments said, adding that the CIIT is carrying retired the “corresponding method inspection to find the causes” of the accident.

The Interoceanic Railroad crosses the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, connecting the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. (Ferrocarril del Istmo de Tehuantepec)

The railroad — modernized during the 2018-24 presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador — continues to run normally, the connection concluded.

However, rider trains are not presently moving betwixt Salina Cruz and Coatzcoalcos arsenic services were canceled aft the derailment connected Dec. 28, 2025. President Claudia Sheinbaum said past period that rider work would not resume until aboriginal 2027.

Sheinbaum: ‘The bid cars didn’t wholly fall’

At her greeting property league connected Thursday, Sheinbaum downplayed the seriousness of the accident.

“Rather than a derailment, [the train] moved,” she said.

“The bid cars didn’t wholly fall, but it was an incident,” Sheinbaum said. “It was reported yesterday by the Navy and inspections are being carried out.”

Asked whether the mishap would person an interaction connected the “reactivation” of the Interoceanic Railroad rider train, the president said the authorities would study connected that astatine a aboriginal date.

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The modernized railroad betwixt Salina Cruz and Coatzacoalcos has been touted arsenic a rival to the Panama Canal fixed that it tin beryllium utilized to determination freight betwixt the Pacific seashore and the Gulf coast, oregon vice versa. For example, freight from Asia tin beryllium unloaded from a vessel successful Salina Cruz and question crossed the Isthmus of Tehuantepec by obstruction earlier being reloaded onto a vessel successful Coatzacoalcos to proceed its travel to the Gulf oregon Atlantic seashore of the United States.

Former Navy Minister José Rafael Ojeda Durán asserted successful 2023 that Mexico would go a “world shipping power” acknowledgment to the operation of a commercialized corridor betwixt the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.

With reports from El Universal