Maya Train freight service set to begin operations by end of 2026

The freight work of the Maya Train successful the Yucatan Peninsula is expected to beryllium up and moving by the extremity of 2026, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said past week.

“It volition beryllium 2 years of construction, successful 2025 and 2026,” stated Sheinbaum astatine her Wednesday property conference. “We anticipation to beryllium inaugurating astatine the extremity of 2026.”

During the property conference, General Gustavo Ricardo Vallejo Suárez, manager of the Felipe Ángeles Engineering Contingent, discussed the advancement of the freight project.

The Maya Train’s rider work has been wholly operational since July 7, with 34 stations crossed the Yucatan covering 1,554 kilometers. Meanwhile, enactment connected a Maya Train freight web commenced successful April and is expected to beryllium completed by November adjacent year.

The freight web volition see 4 main transportation terminals: Palenque, Poxilá, Progreso and Cancún.

Military engineers program to rehabilitate 70 kilometers of railway, starting successful the metropolis of Mérida, to link section manufacture with the existing Maya Tren railway line. The enactment volition past beryllium extended to Yucatán’s main larboard of Progreso to facilitate cargo transportation.

General Ricardo Vallejo, leads the radical of service engineers tasked with gathering the Maya Train freight network. (Moisés Pablo/Cuartoscuro)

The subject is processing the Progreso Multimodal Cargo Terminal successful collaboration with larboard authorities, the authorities authorities and the Maya Train group, to hole to motorboat operations successful precocious 2026, Vallejo said.

The Maya Train  volition yet link with the nationalist railway network, helium said, allowing for freight to determination from Mexico’s bluish borders to Chetumal and Cancún successful the south.

The authorities aims to grow the railway web to the Nogales, Sonora, connected the bluish border by the extremity of Sheinbaum’s six-year word successful office, successful 2030.

The squad is besides moving with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) to excavate archaeological relics encountered on the route.

Vallejo stressed the value of biology protection, saying his squad plans to relocate histrion and wildlife taxon to protected earthy areas.

“It is analyzable successful presumption of its topography,” said Vallejo. “Every day, we determination much than 15,000 cubic meters of materials.”

Vallejo said the resources, permits, unit and machinery are acceptable to commence works crossed the freight network. Project advancement stands astatine astir 5%, helium said, with greater advancement expected erstwhile the INAH completes its preservation work.

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