tunaeater
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Baja developements
Hong Kong Company to Develop US$1.2 Billion Port in Ensenada
Hutchison Port Holdings, part of the Hong Kong conglomerate Cheung Kong
Group, will invest US$1.2 billion in a new port in Ensenada over the next
ten years. According to an article in the Tijuana newspaper Frontera the
port would be similar to the one in Long Beach, California and would be
the
primary port of the Asian Pacific.
Three Ensenada locations are currently being considered for the port,
said
Deputy Antonio Rodríguez Hernández, the president of the Baja California
House of Deputies’ Commission for Economic Development and Port Affairs
(Comisión de Desarrollo Económico y Asuntos Portuarios de la Cámara de
Diputados). The locations are Punta China, Bocana de Santo Tomás and
Punta
Colonet.
The port will also require other investments to link it to surrounding
areas, Rodríguez stated. A railroad would connect Mexicali with Yuma,
Arizona and a new highway would join Punta Colonet with Ensenada and
Tecate.
Rodríguez noted that the state legislature has important work to do to
make
sure that the environment is protected. He also said that the
legislature
must create the conditions to guarantee that the investment is
profitable.
According to Rodríguez, a port is needed that can handle between
1,000,000
and 1,500,000 containers per year.
When this level of activity is compared to that at the Port of Long Beach
it
does not seem that Ensenada’s new venture would necessarily unseat Long
Beach in terms of its importance to US-Asia trade. The Port of Long
Beach
moved 4.6 million container units in 2003 according to its web site. It
also describes itself as the second busiest port in the US and as the
“world's 12th busiest container cargo port.”
Currently, the Ensenada port can handle 100,000 containers a year
although
it averages 60,000 per year. Dredging operations that will begin in
December 2004 will allow fifth-generation boats to dock at the port.
This
will increase capacity to 250,000 containers per year.
--Other Projects: The Wine Corridor and the Escalera Náutica
Rodríguez spoke to Frontera about other developments in the region
including
the creation of a “Wine Corridor” between Ensenada and Valle de
Guadalupe.
The project includes 50 million pesos (approximately US$4.4 million) for
a
highway that will allow more tourists to reach the region.
The “Escalera Náutica” (Nautical Stairway), a plan to develop ports,
hotels
and golf courses around the Gulf of California, is also ready to get
underway, Rodríguez stated. In all the Escalera will involve 700 million
pesos of investment, he said.
One Escalera project that is about to begin is the widening of the
highway
between Bahía de los Ángeles and Santa Rosalita which will allow for the
transfer of yachts between the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California,
Rodríguez said.
Source: Frontera (Tijuana), November 29, 2004. Article by Luis Adolfo
San.
Greg Bloom, Outreach Coordinator
Center for Latin American and Border Studies
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Email address: gbloom@nmsu.edu
Phone: (505) 646-6817
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bajalou
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That idea of a RR from Yuma area to Ensenada has been around for almost 100 years. Still waiting.
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DanO
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Here's another story on this
The Sculpin put up a post about it on Fred's board and I added the link.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20041207-9999-1b...
According to this version, Colonet is the most mentioned spot for this proposed shipping terminal. Some friends at La Bocana had mentioned to me
before that this was being studied there as well. If they were to do it there, they'd have to build the mother of all breakwaters. I also heard that
there was a proposal to build a highway through the Santo Tomas river valley to the highway for trucks hauling stuff out of the quarry at Punta China
as an alternative to barging it up to Ensenada.
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