Cruise ship home port work to resume soon in Puerto Peñasco
Cruise ship home
port work to resume soon
Funding delayed after new
state government took office
Mexico News
Daily | Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Sonora
government officials say they are clearing up problems left by the previous
administration in preparation for releasing more funds for the construction of
a cruise ship home port in Puerto Peñasco.
Construction
of the facility, which consists of a one-kilometer jetty, terminal buildings
and a pedestrian walkway at Sandy Beach, was halted by the new state government
which has claimed the previous one had not met federal government reporting
requirements.
It is one of
many claims made by Institutional Revolutionary Party Governor Claudia
Pavlovich regarding her National Action Party predecessor, Guillermo Padrés,
who is under investigation in connection with missing funds.
But a meeting
last week in Puerto Peñasco, a seaside resort destination in the Sea of Cortés
that is also known as Rocky Point, was given assurances that Governor Pavlovich
and the federal government, which is funding the port, are onside.
Work was
forecast to resume within 30-60 days.
The home port
also came up last week at Tianguis Turístico in Guadalajara, where the
coordinator of the state’s Tourism Development Commission said the project
would be “transcendental,” bringing cruise ships that would serve the northwest
region, the state of Sonora and the country as a whole.
Antonio
Berúmen said cruise lines such as Carnival, Holland America, Royal Caribbean
and Princess have expressed interest in the port.
The market
for the port extends beyond Sonora and into Arizona, California and New Mexico.
Its construction cost was estimated a year ago at 1.4
billion pesos, or US $93 million at the time. Construction began in 2013 but
several delays have slowed things down. It had been expected to begin operating
during the first half of this year.
In 2011
Mazatlán had been under consideration as the site of such a home port, but the
plan was scotched after an upturn in violence.
Source: Punto de Vista (sp)
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