Maya Train gets final approval for a new freight terminal in Cancún

Mexico’s Environment and Natural Resources Ministry (Semarnat) approved connected Monday the operation of the Maya Train cargo terminal successful Cancún, with 260 hectares of jungle expected to beryllium cleared for its development.

The support represents a measurement toward the completion of the state-owned Maya Train’s freight network, which is expected to beryllium operational adjacent year. 

Environmentalists who person opposed the Maya Train proect since its opening entity to the clearing of 260 hectares of jungle onshore for the freight terminal. (Greenpeace/on X)

The support of the Environmental Impact Statement, submitted successful March, volition let for the operation of the Cancún Multimodal Terminal, southbound of the city’s planetary airdrome and eastbound of the rider Maya Train station. 

Mexico’s Defense Ministry volition person 18 months to implicit the project, with a reported nationalist concern of 7.76 cardinal pesos (US $415 million). 

The caller terminal volition location 28 facilities, including warehouses, a hazardous discarded retention site, lodging for National Guard officers and bid crews, a customs inspection country and different cargo work infrastructure. 

It volition link to Section Five of the Maya Train, which runs southbound to Playa del Carmen and Quintana Roo, arsenic good arsenic to Section Four, which connects with the Mérida and Campeche stations. 

Semarnat has said that an further licence volition beryllium required from the Safety, Energy and Environment Agency (ASEA) for the installation of 2 diesel retention tanks for locomotive fueling, with a combined capableness of 240,000 liters. 

The caller terminal volition screen astir 261 ha (645 acres), with 259.5 ha of wood to beryllium cleared for its construction, according to the MIA. 

Environmentalists astir the globe person expressed interest implicit Mexico’s Maya Train improvement successful caller years, arsenic the railway traverses immoderate of the world’s astir delicate ecosystems, including thousands of subterranean caves arsenic good arsenic extended jungle. 

Semarnat’s appraisal of the caller terminal improvement showed that 12 at-risk wildlife taxon are contiguous successful the area, including the endemic ocellated turkey. 

With reports from El Economista, Mexico Business News and Reuters