Mexico to Dredge Pacific Port to Draw Supertankers, Big Cargoes

Mexico plans to turn the Pacific port of Salina Cruz into the country’s deepest to draw larger oil supertankers and massive cargo ships in a bid to establish a viable trade route to challenge the Panama Canal.

AMLO speaks at the inauguration of the CIIT Breakwater megaproject in Salina Cruz, Feb 26.

Photographer: Alejandro Cegarra/Bloomberg

The port work is part of a bigger project called the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a road-and-rail route linking the Pacific and Atlantic and offering economic stimulus to one of Mexico’s poorer regions. The route has been touted by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as a potentially faster and cheaper alternative to the Panama Canal.

The port expansion ...