1. Communications and Transportation Secretariat’s Investment Portfolio
November 2010

2. Table of contents Mexico at a glance.…….………………….3
Mexico is an investment destination...…..4
Real facts………….……...…………..……5
Public-Private Partnerships………………6
Consolidating of capital markets…………7
Infrastructure achievements…… ….8
Road Infrastructure………………………10

3. Table of contents Railroad Bypasses.………...………..…..42
Airports……………………………….……48
Suburban Railway...………………
Ports….……………………………….…...54
Communications………………….....…...63
Project leaders and contact details..…...66

4. Mexico at a glance
Mexico’s population: over million inhabitants (11th largest in the world).
Mexico’s territory: over 2 million km2 (15th largest in the world).
Mexico’s Annual GDP: US$1.08 trillion (13th largest in the world).
Latin America’s GDP (over 4 trillion dollars) is comparable to that of China, of which Mexico and Brazil contribute with about 64%.
Mexico has the second largest annual GDP per capita in Latin America (9,900 USD), just below Chile (10,110 USD).
Annual growth in the communications and transportation sector in Mexico is 2% higher than annual GDP growth over the period
e/ Expected
Source: National Institute of Statistics and Geography

5. Mexico is an investment destination
The fastest routes from the Pacific to the mid-west and the east coast of the US are the ports of Manzanillo and/or Lázaro Cárdenas.
Mexico is connected by sea to 535 destinations in 141 countries, with around shipping lines which serve Mexican ports.
Mexico’s transport infrastructure is very well placed for the purposes of international trade.
Punta Colonet
Manzanillo
Lázaro Cárdenas
Mexico moves high volumes of freight
Amongst OECD countries Mexico has the 4th highest volume of freight transport by road and the 3rd highest by rail.

6. Real facts
Due to its macroeconomic stability and strong institutions Mexico has become an attractive place for foreign capital.
Ranked investment grade by both Moody’s and S&P.
México has increased its transparency in the business environment.
According to the World Bank: Doing Business Report, México ranks 35 amongst countries as a safe place to invest.
México climbed 13 steps compared to last year’s report in the field of dealing with construction permits.
Country
Doing Business (Rank)
2011
2010
Singapore 1
United States 5 4
Canada 7 8
Korea 16 19
México 35 41
Peru 36 56
Colombia 39 37
Spain 49 62
China 79 89
Russia
123
120
Brazil
127
129
India
134
133
Bolivia
149
161
Source:
Source: Doing Business México

7. Public-Private Partnerships
Mexico has been involved in national-level transport PPP projects for interstate roads, airports and seaports.
Mexico has revised the law of acquisitions and public-works to improve the bidding processes and introduce specific arbitration options for dispute resolution.
Facilitating Private Services Provision Schemes (PPS)
The government is promoting a new PPP legislation and several regulatory reforms to offer more certainty for investment in infrastructure
Presidential Bill for a new PPP legislation*
Non-solicited Projects
If the proposed project receives a positive evaluation (six month period) from Government Agencies, the company receives up to 10% of its total value.
Flexible Contracts
A simple transparent bidding process with a balanced distribution of risk between public and private sectors.
Contract Extension
Concessions arranged under PPPs might get a contract for up to 60 years, reducing the probability of devoting resources to governmental rescue plans.
Land acquisition / RoW
Easier and faster processes to value land. Valuations must take into account the intrinsic value of land, as well as the opportunity cost and added value.
Modifications during concession
Changes in contract terms will be possible in order to improve infrastructure, service performance or to identify supervening circumstances.
Early termination
Legal certainty to the parties, including respect for the rights of others in good faith and reimbursement of investments made to counterparts.
Subrogation (step in rights)
Assignable rights prior to authorization. Allows financial creditors to take control of the projects and assume the obligations of the concession, facilitating access to bank credits.
Third party
All technical or economic controversies will be solved by expert committees and arbitrage.
Funding
Incentives for pension funds involvement
* Submitted to Congress in November 2009

8. Consolidating of capital markets
Important source of funding for infrastructure projects
Banobras, the Mexican National Bank, offers innovative financial schemes
Development bank
Offering a variety of financial alternatives that help develop public infrastructure projects.
Trustee of the National Infrastructure Fund
Promoting national and international private sector participation in the development of strategic projects
National Infrastructure Fund
Banobras

9. Infrastructure achievements
In 2010 through the PPP scheme the government invested a total of US$ 2, million dollars in Rails, Ports and Airports.
Between the Federal government invested a total of US$4,533.4 million in transportation and sea ports.
The Mexican government invested a total of US 15,597 million dollars in improving its roads (development, modernization and maintenance)
Port Infrastructure
A total of 2.3 billion USD have been invested on the Maritime and Port subsectors
We are investing in:
Ports (Manzanillo, Veracruz, Coatzacoalcos and Mazatlán),
Specialized Container Terminals and industrial plants (Altamira, Tampico, Lázaro Cárdenas, Manzanillo and Guaymas)
The construction of a Federal Electricity Commission’s Liquefied Gas Terminal (New Port of Cuyutlán)
Improving port access and building new docks (Manzanillo, Mazatlán, Guaymas and Puerto Vallarta)
Mazatlán terminal II
Albatros Bridge

10. Road Infrastructure

11. MAZATLAN BYPASS Length: 38.0 km
Highway corridor: Mexico – Nogales with a branch to Tijuana
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Sinaloa
Expected traffic: 6,500 veh/day
PPP model: Asset Utilization (North Pacific Package)
Bidding process information: Delivery of proposals during the 4th quarter of 2009
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project is located north east of Mazatlan and constitutes the southern end of the Mazatlan-Culiacan highway. The Mazatlan bypass will be a 4 lane highway that will connect Villa Union with the north of the Mazatlan metropolitan area. It will also include links to the Airport and to Mazatlan downtown.
Benefits: The bypass will produce considerable savings in travel time and vehicle operation costs, both for local users and tourists that arrive in Mazatlan airport as well as for long distance journeys.
Regional Impact: The bypass will foster tourist development on the northern zone of Mazatlan offering a direct link between this area and the city airport. Additionally it will offer a high quality connection for the traffic coming from the Mazatlan-Durango and Tepic- Villa Union highways to the north of Sinaloa and Sonora.

12. CULIACAN BYPASS Length: 22.0 km
Highway corridor: Mexico – Nogales with a branch to Tijuana
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Sinaloa
Expected traffic: 5,300 veh/day
PPT model: Asset Utilization (North Pacific Package)
Bidding process information: Delivery of proposals during the 4th quarter of 2009
Construction duration: 15 months
Description: The project is located southwest of the city of Culiacan and will connect the Mazatlan- Culiacan and Culiacan-Los Mochis highways with a new four lane road.
Benefits: The construction of the Culiacan bypass will ensure the continuity of the long range traffic that will no longer travel through inner city roads. The bypass will produce savings in journey times and vehicle operating costs and will improve the level of service offered to local users as well as to long distance journeys.
Regional Impact: The bypass will restrain the long range traffic through Culiacan and will give continuity to traffic flows on the main highway corridor in the northwest region, which will contribute to the tourist development and the competitiveness of the agricultural and industrial exports of the region.

13. REYNOSA BYPASS Length: 37.0 km Highway corridor: Mazatlan-Matamoros
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Tamaulipas
Expected traffic: 5,000 veh/day
PPP model: Asset Utilization (Northeast Package)
Bidding process information: Delivery of proposals during the 4th quarter of 2009
Construction duration: 18 months
Description: The project consists of finishing the construction of the Reynosa bypass that starts to the west of Reynosa, on the untolled Monterrey-Reynosa road, and ends at the Matamoros-Reynosa road, in the junction with the highway of the same name. It is a 37 km two lane toll road.
Benefits: To prevent freight traffic through downtown Reynosa, to reduce vehicle operating costs and journey times, and to provide faster and better access to the international Reynosa-Pharr international bridge. The ring road will have a traffic control center that will offer monitoring and information services to users to increase safety and the service level of the system.
Regional Impact: Together with the construction of other projects in the region, the bypass will contribute to the integration and balance in the distribution of traffic flows between the international bridges system Reynosa-Pharr, Reynosa-Hidalgo, Reynosa- Anzalduas and Río Bravo-Donna, which will strengthen the transportation infrastructure for international trade.

14. GUADALAJARA BYPASS Length: 111 km
Highway corridor: Mexico – Nogales with a branch to Tijuana
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Jalisco
Expected traffic: veh/day
PPP model: Asset Utilization (South Pacific Package)
Bidding process information: Delivery of proposals in December 2009
Construction duration: 24 months
Description : The bypass will prevent long distance journeys through Guadalajara’s urban area. The project consists of three sections: the stretch I starts at the junction of Zapotlanejo, and ends at the junction of Chapala with the Guadalajara – Chapala road; at this point starts the stretch II, which ends at the junction of Santa Cecilia with the Guadalajara- Colima highway; finally, at this spot starts stretch III, which ends at the junction of El Arenal with the Guadalajara-Tepic highway.
Benefits: The bypass will produce savings in journey times and vehicle operating costs. It will improve driving conditions in the Guadalajara urban area and will reduce air pollution levels. It will also guarantee faster flows and safer driving conditions for long distance journeys.
Regional Impact: The bypass will provide Guadalajara with an outer highway belt that will supply a valuable platform for local industrial plants and distribution centers, which will in turn contribute to the economic activity, employment and competitiveness of the western region of the country.

15. TEPIC – COMPOSTELA HIGHWAY
Length: km
Highway corridor: Not part of a corridor
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Nayarit
Expected traffic: 2,800 veh/day
PPP model: Asset Utilization (South Pacific Package)
Bidding process information: Delivery of proposals in December 2009
Construction duration: 18 months
Description: The project consists of the construction of a 26 km two lane highway, between the urban zone of Tepic, Nayarit, and the new highway to access Puerto Vallarta.
Benefits: This section will be a high specification road that will connect Tepic and Compostela, therefore allowing savings in journey times and operating costs. The highway will improve the level of service offered to users by allowing a fast flow and safe driving conditions. The highway will improve the level of service offered to users by allowing faster traffic flows and safer driving conditions.
Regional Impact: The highway will ease the access to the tourist destinations of the Nayarit Riviera and Puerto Vallarta, from Tepic and points located at the north of this city, which will promote tourist development and the creation of jobs in the region.

16. TEPIC BYPASS Length: 33.5 km
Highway corridor: Mexico – Nogales with a branch to Tijuana
Investment: million dollars
Location State of Nayarit
Expected traffic: 11,270 veh/day
PPP model: Asset Utilization (South Pacific Package)
Bidding process information: Delivery of proposals in December 2009
Construction duration: 18 months
Description: The project consists of the construction of a two lane road stretch, at the north of the city of Tepic, which will give continuity to traffic flows through the Mexico-Nogales corridor with a branch to Tijuana. The bypass starts at the crossing with the federal road Guadalajara-Tepic and ends at the junction with the Tepic-Villa Union highway.
Benefits: The ring road will produce savings in journey times and vehicle operating costs. It will also benefit the residents of Tepic, by avoiding the long range traffic through the urban road system.
Regional Impact: By making the long range traffic between the center and northwestern region of the country easier, the bypass will increase agricultural, tourist and commercial activities in the west of the country.

17. MORELIA BYPASS Length: 58.0 km
Highway corridor: Manzanillo-Tampico with a branch to L. Cárdenas and Ecuandureo
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Michoacan
Expected traffic: 5,000 veh/day
PPP model: Asset Utilization (Michoacan Package)
Probable bidding process date:
Second half of 2009
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project consists of the construction of a two lane bypass at the western side of Morelia which will give continuity to the traffic traveling on the Patzcuaro-Uruapan-Lazaro Cardenas highway from the north and center of the country to Michoacan and Guerrero coasts, by enabling the vehicles to avoid crossing the capital of that state. It starts at the Tarimbaro junction, at the Maravatio Zapotlanejo highway and ends at the outskirts of Patzcuaro.
Benefits: The bypass will allow important savings in journey times and vehicle operating costs for journeys with origin or destination in Lazaro Cardenas and in the Guerrero shore. It will also enable freight traffic to avoid travelling through the road system of Morelia.
Regional Impact: The project will improve the access conditions to the port of Lazaro Cardenas and the tourist destinations along the cost of Guerrero, especially from central and eastern Mexico.

18. PATZCUARO – URUAPAN HIGHWAY
Length: km
Highway corridor: Manzanillo-Tampico with a branch to L. Cárdenas.
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Michoacan
Expected traffic: 8,600 veh/day
PPP model: Asset Utilization (Michoacan Package)
Bidding process information:
Second half of 2009
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project comprises widening to four lanes the 56 km Patzcuaro-Uruapan highway in the state of Michoacan, which today carries 8,600 vehicles per day, including 13% of heavy vehicles.
Benefits: Safety will be improved, and journey times and vehicle operating costs will be reduced.
Regional Impact: The project will expand the capacity of the existing infrastructure to make it suitable for the long range traffic that travels between Lazaro Cardenas and the center of the country and will help consolidate the touristic potential of the state of Michoacan.

19. URUAPAN BYPASS Length: 25.2 km
Highway corridor: Manzanillo-Tampico with a branch to L. Cardenas and Ecuandureo
Investment: 74 million dollars
Location: State of Michoacan
Expected traffic: 5,000 veh/day
PPP model: Asset Utilization (Michoacan Package)
Bidding process information:
Second half of 2009
Construction duration: 18 months
Description: The project consists of the construction of a two lane bypass to improve the flow of vehicles from the center of the state to the Zamora area and the northeast points of Michoacan.
Benefits: Reduction in journey times between Morelia, Lazaro Cardenas, Apatzingan and the north points of Uruapan, by avoiding to drive through the urban zone of Uruapan.
Regional Impact : Improvement of access to the port of Lazaro Cardenas and to the agricultural production zones of southwestern Michoacan through a direct link with the northern area of the state and the region of Guadalajara.

20. TUXPAN-TAMPICO HIGHWAY AND THE TAMPICO BYPASS
Length: km
Highway corridor: Veracruz-Monterrey with a branch to Matamoros
Investment: million dollars
Location: States of Tamaulipas and Veracruz
Expected traffic: 4,500 veh/day
PPP model: Public investment paid with non budgetary resources
Bidding process information:
Second half of 2010
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project consists of the construction of a 246 km four lane highway, including the construction of the bypasses of Tampico and Tuxpan, which will improve driving conditions along the Veracruz-Matamoros corridor, as well as the access from the south and southeast up to the northern border of the country.
Benefits: Its construction will give continuity to the long range traffic flows, reduce transportation costs and improve the level of service. The Macro ring road of Tampico will give continuity to the long range traffic at the northern border of the country, preventing its crossing through the urban area of Tampico.
Regional Impact: The project will boost the tourist, industrial and commercial activities of the northern area of the Gulf of Mexico shore and will turn it into a highly competitive region due to its logistics and communication potential.

21. GUADALAJARA COLIMA HIGHWAY
Length: km
Highway corridor: Manzanillo-Tampico with a branch to L. Cardenas and Ecuandureo
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Jalisco
Expected traffic: 7,000 veh/day
PPP model: Public investment to be paid with non budgetary resources
Bidding process information:
Second half of 2010
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project consists widening to four lanes of the Guadalajara-Colima highway, which includes the construction of a 10.5 meter two-lane separated parallel body between Sayula and the boundaries of the states of Jalisco and Colima. The project also includes widening the bridges Atenquique I and Atenquique II.
Benefits: The widening of the highway will produce important savings in vehicle operating costs and journey times. The construction of a parallel body to the existing one will increase the safety and comfort of the journeys, and will ensure that the port of Manzanillo has an efficient connection to the center of the country.
Regional Impact: Besides contributing to the modernization of the corridor Manzanillo-Tampico, the project will support the consolidation of Manzanillo as an important industrial port and tourist destination and will facilitate the economic activity of the Colima-Ciudad Guzman corridor.

22. INDIOS VERDES – SANTA CLARA LINK
Length: km
Highway corridor: Mexico - Tuxpam
Investment: million dollars
Location: Mexico City and the State of Mexico
Expected traffic: 30,000 veh/day
PPP model: Public investment to be paid with non budgetary resources
Bidding process information:
First half of2010
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project consists of the construction of a 6 km eight lane road, from Insurgentes Avenue (between the streets of Montevideo and Ticoman) in Mexico City (Federal District) to the Santa Clara junction , in the State of Mexico, where the Mexico- Pachuca highway starts. The project includes the construction of a junction in each end of the stretch, two bridges and a tunnel along the right of way of the national electricity company.
Benefits: The project will improve traffic conditions between Mexico City, Pachuca, Tulancingo and the northern exits of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area, reducing journey times and offering an alternative route. The project will also contribute to reducing the emission of pollutants in northern Mexico City.
Regional Impact:  It will eliminate an important bottleneck in the northern access to Mexico City. It will also promote the economic and social development of the northeast of the State of Mexico, the center and east of Hidalgo, the north of Puebla and Veracruz and the south of Tamaulipas by providing them with a direct access to the capital city of the country.

23. ESTACION DON – NOGALES HIGHWAY
Length: km
Highway corridor: Mexico – Nogales with a branch to Tijuana
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Sonora
Expected traffic: 6,300 veh/day
PPP model: Public investment to be paid with non budgetary resources
Bidding process information:
Starting in 2010
Construction duration: 36 months
Description: The project consists of modernizing the Estacion Don-Nogales highway, widening its two bodies to meters, including structures and drainage works, as well as reconstructing the pavement where the level of service is not satisfactory.
Benefits: The modernization of the highway will benefit the residents of Sonora, since the highway is the north-south communication axis of the state. It will increase traffic safety and reduce vehicle operating costs.
Regional Impact: Besides its positive contribution to communicating the different regions of Sonora, the highway will reduce transportation costs for agricultural products to be exported from the south of Sonora and north of Sinaloa to the United States.

24. CHAMAPA-LECHERIA HIGHWAY
Length: km
Highway corridor: Outside corridors
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Mexico
Expected traffic: 30,000 veh/day
PPP model: Public investment to be paid with non budgetary resources
Bidding process information:
Second half of 2010
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project consists of widening selected stretches of the existing 27 km six lane highway, as well as improving access points and toll booths to improve service conditions offered to users.
Benefits: To improve quality of service provided to users, considering the increase in demand, and to reduce the amount of time spent on toll payments.
Regional Impact: To ease congestion at the west of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area, to reduce the loss of man-hours, and to lower the emission of pollutants.

25. ACAPULCO BYPASS Length: 67.7 km.
Highway corridor: Acapulco-Cuernavaca
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Guerrero
Expected traffic: veh/day in the western section and 150 veh/day in the eastern section of the bypass
PPP model: Public investment to be paid with non budgetary resources
Bidding process information:
Second half of 2010
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project consists of communicating the Cuernavaca-Acapulco highway with destinations along the coast of Guerrero. This includes two 2-lane bypasses, to the west and east of the Cuernavaca –Acapulco highway.
Benefits: The construction of these ring roads will allow the development of new tourist attractions along the shore of the state of Guerrero.
Regional Impact: Both bypasses will boost the touristic development of Guerrero and will encourage economic activities and job creation in this state.

26. LA PERA – CUAUTLA HIGHWAY
Length: km
Highway corridor: Acapulco-Veracruz
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Morelos
Expected traffic: 9,700 veh/day
PPP model: Public investment to be paid with non budgetary resources
Bidding process information:
Second half of 2010
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project consists of widening the 27 kilometers La Pera-Cuautla toll highway from 10 to 21 meters to host four lanes with lateral road shoulders. The modernization includes the expansion of the toll booth zone and the construction of two junctions to make the access to Tepotzotlan and Oaxtepec easier.
Benefits: The modernization of this highway will reduce journey times and improve the levels of safety for users that travel to the spas and tourist centers of the east region of Morelos, especially during weekends, and will contribute to a larger tourist activity in this region.
Regional Impact: The suggested work will eliminate a bottleneck in the access from Cuernavaca and Mexico City to the recreational centers of the east of Morelos and at the same time will facilitate access to Cuautla and other points in the south of the state of Puebla.

27. MITLA –TEHUANTEPEC HIGHWAY
Length: km
Highway corridor: Puebla – Oaxaca –Hidalgo City
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Oaxaca
Expected traffic: 2,000 veh/day
PPP model: Service Rendering Project (PPS by its acronym in Spanish)
Bidding process information: Delivery of proposals during the 4th quarter of 2009
Construction duration: 40 months
Description: To widen, build, exploit operate, maintain the 169 km Mitla-Tehuantepec federal road located in the state of Oaxaca as a concession through Private Service Contracts.
Benefits: The highway will connect the city of Oaxaca with the Tehuantepec Isthmus and nearby regions. It will foster economic development, having high impact in the region and in the communities located in its influence zones and in the regions it connects. This project will benefit the Isthmus of Tehuantepec zone, which has a population of 674 thousand inhabitants, to whom it will provide a high specification access to the capital of Oaxaca.
Regional Impact: It will allow better connectivity between the industrial port of Salina Cruz and the center of the state of Oaxaca. In addition, it will improve the access to the zone of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, as well as to the Mixe zone of the northeast of Oaxaca. Finally, it will provide a high specification link to the trans isthmus corridor.

28. CABO SAN LUCAS – SAN JOSE DEL CABO HIGHWAY
Length: km
Highway corridor: Trans Peninsula of Baja California
Investment: million dollars
Location: South Baja California
Expected traffic: 7,000 veh/day
PPP model: Concession with Assets
Bidding process information: First half of 2010
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project consists of building a new 44 km four lane road along the tourist corridor of Los Cabos. It includes the construction of a bypass from Cabo San Lucas to connect the Todos Santos- Cabo San Lucas road with the ring road of San Jose del Cabo. It will include two branches towards the coast, to give access to intermediate spots between Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo.
Benefits: The ring road will speed up the communication between San Jose del Cabo and Los Cabos to improve access to Los Cabos airport. Since it will be constructed in superior heights than the current route, it will release lands with beach fronts for tourist use, which will increase the attraction of Los Cabos as a high quality tourist destination.
Regional Impact: This project will foster the economic and touristic development of the south of the state, including the zones located north from Cabo San Lucas, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean.

29. PALMILLAS-APASEO EL GRANDE HIGHWAY
Length: km
Highway corridor: Mexico -Ciudad Juarez
Investment: million dollars
Location: States of Queretaro and Guanajuato
Expected traffic 8,000 veh/day
PPP model Concession with Assets
Bidding process dinformation: Second half of 2010
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project consists of building a four lane highway for long journeys towards the west of the country. This new road would function as an alternate route to the Mexico-Queretaro highway in its Palmillas-Queretaro stretch.
Benefits: The road will speed up journeys between the center and the west of the country by avoiding passing through the corridor San Juan del Rio-Queretaro and the city of Queretaro, and at the same time will contribute to reduce congestion in both corridor as well as in urban roads.
Regional Impact: The highway will significantly shorten trip distance between the south zone of the Bajio and the Mexico City Metropolitan Area. In conjunction with the Mexico City Metropolitan Area northern bypass, it will generate new routes in the center of the country and promote the creation of new economic activities.

30. LAGUNA VERDE – GUTIERREZ ZAMORA HIGHWAY
Length: km
Highway corridor: Veracruz-Monterrey
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Veracruz
Expected traffic: 7,000 veh/day
PPP model: Concession with Assets
Bidding process information: Second half of 2010
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project consists of the construction of a 126 km four lane highway along the Gulf of Mexico coast, in the state of Veracruz, in order to improve the communication between Veracruz, Tuxpan and Tampico.
Benefits: The project will speed up journeys along the coast corridor and towards the north of the state; it will promote economic and touristic development of the area and will reduce accidents in the region.
Regional Impact: The highway will facilitate the communication along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico and will improve the connectivity between the south-southeast region of Mexico and the north of the country. It will also promote the development of the height ports of Veracruz, Tuxpan and Tampico-Altamira.

31. CHAMPOTON-VILLA MADERO HIGHWAY
Length: km
Highway corridor: Puebla-Progreso
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Campeche
Expected traffic: 4,900 veh/day
PPP model: Concession with Assets
Bidding process information: Second half of 2010
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project consists of widening the existing four lane highway in the stretch Champoton-Villa Madero, so that it includes two parallel sections of meters wide each.
Benefits: The project will increase safety and quality of service and will help promote the touristic development of the region.
Regional Impact: The project will contribute to strengthen and diversify the economy of Campeche, allowing the exploitation of its tourism potential. It will also facilitate the communication among the main population centers along the Gulf of Mexico.

32. CHAMPOTON BYPASS Length: 17.0 km Highway corridor: Puebla-Progreso
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Campeche
Expected traffic: 2,500 veh/day
PPP model: Concession with Assets
Bidding process information: Second half of 2010
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project forms part of the corridor Puebla-Progreso and consists of the construction of the 13 km Champoton bypass on the Campeche-Ciudad del Carmen road, including a correction of the outline to facilitate the tourist development of Playa Esmeralda.
Benefits: The project will increase safety and comfort of users that travel along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico and facilitate the tourist development of Playa Esmeralda and Campeche.
Regional Impact: The ring road will contribute to strengthen and diversify the economy of Campeche, by allowing the exploitation of its tourist potential. It will also facilitate the communication between the main population centers located along the Gulf of Mexico.

33. CIUDAD VALLES / TAMUIN RING ROAD
Length: km
Highway corridor: Manzanillo-Tampico with a branch to L. Cardenas and Ecuandureo.
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of San Luis Potosi
Expected traffic: 2,200 veh/day
PPP model: Individual Concession
Bidding process information: Delivery of proposals during the 4th quarter of 2009
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project consists of the construction of a 50 km two lane, type A2 ring road. The project includes 4 bridges, 19 vehicle underpasses and 5 junctions.
Benefits: The project will produce journey time savings for long distance journeys, a reduction in vehicle operating costs, an increase in driving safety both inside as well as outside the city, and a more efficient communication between the center of the country and Tampico.
Regional Impact: This project will complement the actions that are being taken in the Manzanillo- Tampico corridor to improve the access between the Pacific and the center of the country with the Gulf of Mexico. In particular, it will provide an efficient access to the port of Tampico-Altamira, which will expand the hinterland covered by this port, especially in the center-north of Mexico.

34. SALAMANCA-LEON HIGHWAY
Length: km
Highway corridor: Querétaro-Ciudad Juarez
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Guanajuato
Expected traffic: 5,900 veh/day
PPP model: Individual Concession
Bidding process information: April 27, 2010
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project consists of the construction of an alternate 85 km four lane to the untolled road that currently connects Salamanca, Irapuato, Silao and Leon. It will be a 85 km four lane, highway running between the junction of Cerro Gordo, on the Queretaro-Irapuato highway, and the Leon-Aguascalientes highway, in the south of the city of Leon.
Benefits: The project will improve driving conditions in the central region of Guanajuato. It will also improve access in the Salamanca- Irapuato-Silao-Leon corridor and will improve access to the industrial, commercial and agricultural industrial zones along the corridor.
Regional Impact: The highway will integrate a high specification road axis from Morelia in Michoacan, up to Aguascalientes and many spots in the north of that city. This north-south axis through the Bajio region will re-establish the communication options of one of the most active and dynamic regions of Mexico.

35. CUAPIAXTLA-CUACNOPALAN HIGHWAY
Length: km
Highway corridor: Not part of a corridor
Investment: million dollars
Location: States of Puebla and Tlaxcala
Expected traffic: 6,000 veh/day
PPP model: Individual Concession
Bidding process information: Second semester of 2010
Construction duration: 14 months
Description: The project consists of the construction of a two lane highway between Cuapiaxtla and Cuacnopalan, to connect the corridor of the High Plateau with the Puebla- Cordoba and Cuacnopalan-Oaxaca highways.
Benefits: To improve the integration of zones traditionally not well connected, to ease its future economic development and their integration to other regions of the country.
Regional Impact: The project will speed up long range traffic towards the south of Puebla and detonate the logistic potential of the region, as well as increase the coverage of the road connections with the state of Oaxaca.

36. CIUDAD JUAREZ BYPASS AND GUADALUPE – TORNILLO INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE
Length: km
Highway corridor: Queretaro-Ciudad Juarez
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Chihuahua
Expected traffic: 5,000 veh/day
PPP model: Individual Concession
Bidding process information: Second semester of 2010
Construction duration: 18 months
Description: The project consists of the construction of a 32 km two lane access between the highways Chihuahua-Ciudad Juarez and Ciudad Juarez-El Porvenir, in order to improve the long range access to the Mexico–U.S.A border. The project includes the construction of an access to the border port and the Mexican part of the Guadalupe-Tornillo bridge.
Benefits: It will improve the access for the long range traffic flow to the northern national border and will increase the installed capacity for the border crossings. The ring road will avoid the long range traffic through the city of Ciudad Juarez, which will reduce operating costs and travel times.
Regional Impact: The project will offer a new border crossing option in the east side of Ciudad Juarez and with it an international bridge system will be articulated. In coordination with priority projects in the state of Texas, this project will improve the interconnection of the Mexico-US transport corridor.

37. MEXICO CITY SOUTHERN BYPASS (LA VENTA-TOPILEJO-CHALCO) WITH A BRANCH TO ATLIXCO - SAN MARTIN TEXMELUCAN AND PUEBLA SOUTHERN BYPASS
Total length: km
Highway corridor: Mexico- Puebla-Oaxaca-Ciudad Hidalgo
Investment: 1,938.5 million dollars
Location: States of Mexico, Puebla, Morelos and Mexico City
Expected traffic: Between 5,000 and 30,000 veh/day in the different sections of the project
PPP model: Individual concession
Bidding process information: First semester of 2011
Construction duration: 36 months
Description: The first 25 kilometers (La Venta- Topilejo stretch) will consist of six lanes with an initial 30,000 vehicles. The stretch Topilejo-Chalco will be 51 km long and will consist of four lanes. The branch to Atlixco and to San Martin Texmelucan will consist of 114 km and four lanes with an expected traffic of 8,000 vehicles. The Puebla south ring road will be 45 km long on 2 lanes, and estimates a flow of 5,000 vehicles .
Benefits: The project will offer alternatives to free the cities of Mexico and Puebla from through traffic and interconnect the zones of the southeast south, east and west of the country. It will avoid the crossing of long range journeys through the urban zone, giving a connection between the following highways: Mexico-Puebla, Puebla-Cuautla, State of Mexico exterior ring road, Mexico-Cuernavaca, Mexico-Toluca and Chamapa-Lecheria.
Regional Impact: The project will integrate a huge circumvallation ring to the Mexico City Metropolitan Area, and together with the North Ring Road will state deep transformations in travelling and activity location in a broad area of the central region of Mexico.

38. JALA – COMPOSTELA – PUERTO VALLARTA HIGHWAY
Length: km
Highway corridor: Not part of a corridor
Investment: million dollars
Location: States of Jalisco and Nayarit
Expected traffic: 2,500 veh/day
PPP model: Individual concession
Bidding process information: Second half of 2010
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project consists of the construction of a 130 km four lane highway from Jala, over the Guadalajara-Tepic highway, to the Puerto Vallarta junction.
Benefits: The project will provide an efficient access from the center of the country as far as Puerto Vallarta and the Nayarit Riviera. It will reduce current journey times, especially during the vacation period, and increase safety. It will also eliminate a bottle neck at the access to Puerto Vallarta and will promote its development as weekend destination..
Regional Impact: The project will make the access from the center of the country towards the tourist destinies of the Nayarit Coast and Puerto Vallarta easier, promoting the regional development and opening new tourist markets in a zone with an ample national and international projection.

39. ATIZAPAN – ATLACOMULCO HIGHWAY
Length: km
Highway corridor: Mexico–Nogales with a branch to Tijuana
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Mexico
Expected traffic: 10,000 veh/day
PPP model: Individual concession
Bidding process information: Second half of 2010
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project consists of the construction of a 80 km six and four lane highway in isolated stretches to give a new exit towards the west for the traffic of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area.
Benefits: The project will offer the user a direct exit from the northeast of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area to Morelia, Guadalajara and points at the west of the country, and will count with the missing link of the direct route between Mexico and Guadalajara.
Regional Impact: Together with the Atlacomulco- Maravatio, Maravatio-Guadalajara, Chamapa- Lecheria and Mexico City North Ring Road, the project will contribute to a better articulation of the central region of Mexico. At the same time it will promote the consolidation of the Atlacomulco region as a neuralgic point for transportation and economical activity in the center of the country.

40. CUERNAVACA BYPASS Length: 34.0 km
Highway corridor: Acapulco-Veracruz
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Morelos
Expected traffic: 6,900 veh/day
PPP model: Individual Concession
Bidding process information: Second half of 2010
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project consists in building a four lane bypass at the northeast of the city of Cuernavaca, in the state of Morelos, to give continuity to the traffic towards destinations located at the south of the city. Its draft starts over the Mexico-Cuernavaca highway, in the north of the urban zone of Cuernavaca, and ends at the south of Alpuyeca, over the Cuernavaca-Acapulco highway.
Benefits: The project will separate the long range highway flows from the local flows of the city of Cuernavaca. By doing it, time and journey costs for long distance journeys will decrease and it will increase traffic safety and air quality in the urban zone of Cuernavaca.
Regional Impact: This highway will reduce in half an hour the journey time between Mexico City and Acapulco, which will potentiate the tourist development of the south of Guerrero. It will also improve local flows in Cuernavaca and increase the efficiency of the traffic within the city.

41. TEZIUTLAN – NAUTLA HIGHWAY
Length: km
Highway corridor: Not part of a corridor
Investment: million dollars
Location: States of Puebla and Veracruz
Expected traffic: 2,800 veh/day
PPP model: Individual Concession
Bidding process information: Second half of 2010
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project consists of the construction of a 80 km two lane highway with a stretch of 35 km in the state of Puebla and another one of 45 km in Veracruz.
Benefits: The highway will facilitate access from the Puebla northern Sierra to the Gulf of Mexico. It will reduce vehicle operating costs and journey times, and will provide higher safety to journeys originated or with destination in the central and western zones of the state of Puebla and north of Veracruz.
Regional Impact: This project will improve access between high potential agricultural and touristic zones and contribute to the economic activity and employment in Puebla and Veracruz.

42. Railroad Bypasses

43. MANZANILLO RAILWAY BYPASS
Length: Railroad Bypass 11.5 km Railroad Tunnel 2.2 km
Corridor: Manzanillo – Mexico City
Investment: million dollars*
Location: State of Colima
Expected traffic: million TEU per year
PPP model: Public investment
Bidding process information: October 2009
Construction duration: Until May 2011
Description: The project consists of a railroad bypass, a railroad tunnel, the construction of a railway viaduct (Omega Project) and a multimode project (designed for the long term, 15 to 20 years).
Benefits: To allow the development of the natural gas plant of the Federal Electricity Commission, solve the road problem of the city of Manzanillo, improve the urban and industrial infrastructure, and improve quality of life.
Regional Impact: The infrastructure that is being built in this project will allow the eventual growth of the port and the development of a multimodal project of huge dimensions. It is foreseen that the port might achieve the capacity to handle around 2.7 million TEU per year, once the expansion of the north zone of the port is operating. At the same time, it allows to establish favorable conditions for investment.
*Exchange rate: 13 pesos mexicanos per United States dollar

44. TAPACHULA RAILWAY BYPASS
Length: km
Corridor: Chiapas - Mayab
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Chiapas
Expected traffic: TBD
PPP model: Public investment (through the FIT)
Bidding process information: TBD
Construction duration: Until December 2010
Description: Construction of 11.1 kilometers of railways to the west of the city of Tapachula, with the construction of a bridge over the river Coatan and a vehicle underpass at the highway that connects Tapachula with Puerto Chiapas. The project also considers the acquisition of the right of way, the construction of dirt roads and drainage works along the route and the installation of the rails .
Benefits: The railroad will avoid passing through Tapachula. It will reduce time losses significantly for the inhabitants of Tapachula, which is caused by traffic and railroad operation. It will also reduce the emission of pollutants, will allow savings in the operation costs of the railway and will increase the efficiency in the transportation of goods.
Regional Impact: It will provide higher efficiency conditions in the transportation of goods in the region and considers the future industrial development and the demand for mobility that will be reflected in the railroad. At the same time, it will establish better conditions to encourage investment in the region and the creation of jobs.

45. CELAYA RAILWAY BYPASS
Length: km for Line “A” km for Line “NB” Total: 51 km
Corridor: Lazaro Cardenas – Laredo Manzanillo – Mexico City
Investment: million dollars*
Location: State of Guanajuato
Expected traffic: TBD
PPP model: Public investment: Federal and local government, and private
Bidding process information: th quarter 2009 (studies) nd quarter (tender)
Construction duration:
Description: Design and construction of a railroad bypass system around the urban area of Celaya; a new exchange yard that substitutes the one operating today, a park for automobile industry suppliers and an intermodal terminal for the handling of fiscal cargo and domestic traffic.
Benefits: Decrease time lost due to the traffic congestion and the exchange of trains, reduce the number of accidents avoiding the crossing of the railroad over more than 18 dangerous crossings, improve efficiency and competitiveness in the transportation of goods.
Regional Impact: The project considers the installation of future industrial parks that will benefit with the new tracing out of the railways, without compromising the wellbeing of the urban zone. It will encourage more investment in the region and will exploit the economic potential of Guanajuato; and it will allow the expansion of the capacity of the railroad in the future, enabling a higher coverage in the coming years.
*Exchange rate: 13 pesos mexicanos per United States dollar

46. CIUDAD JUAREZ RAILWAY BYPASS (Paso del Norte integral railroad project)
Length: 63 km (ring road)
Corridor: Mexico – Ciudad Juárez
Investment: 168 million dollars.
Mexican side): 90 mill Sta. Teresa project, 78 mill Cd. Juarez project
Location: State of Chihuahua
PPP model: Public investment: Federal, local and municipal financing and a Concession.
Bidding process information: TBD
Description: The project consists of i) Santa Teresa Project: railroad bypass San Jeronimo-Santa Teresa (63 km) and border crossing at the Santa Teresa location; and ii) Ciudad Juarez Project: uban railway coexistence works (vehicle underpasses and pedestrian passes) and hydraulic work.
Benefits: An increase in railroad operating time through the new border crossing to 24 hours (the actual crossing operates 8 hours), fluidity and safety to railroad operations, an improvement in the exchange of goods between Mexico and the U.S., and a reduction in traffic congestion that is caused by the passing of the railroad through the urban zone.
Regional Impact: Encouragement of economic, industrial and social development by producing the reactivation of this transportation infrastructure for exporting to the U.S. and Canada. At the same time, to encourage and attract the investment in this region, creating new employment sources.

47. MATAMOROS RAILWAY BYPASS
Length: 10 km (excluding rail yard)
Corridor: Mazatlan - Matamoros
Investment: million dollars*
Location: Municipality of Matamoros, Tamaulipas
Expected traffic: TBD
PPP model: Asset Utilization (Tamaulipas Northeast package)
Bidding process information: Delivery of proposals in December 2009
Construction duration: 24 months, December 2011.
Description: The project consists of the construction of a railroad bypass to divert traffic from the Matamoros – Brownsville corridor towards the west of the urban area. The project also includes the modernization of the Mazatlan-Matamoros highway that connects the Pacific with the Gulf of Mexico.
Benefits: An increase in rail productivity, elimination of bottlenecks at level crossings, a reduction in vehicle and rail operating costs, a substantial increase in safety by avoiding conflicts between road and rail vehicles as well as avoiding a vehicle-mix between long distance and local journeys in the Matamoros urban area.
Regional Impact: The project will foster industrial development and will set up a new configuration on the B&M international bridge to allow express crossings for SENTRI-type light vehicles. This project will be a key to increase the level of cross-border traffic by improving the efficiency of the logistic channels in the northern region of the continent.
*Exchange rate: 13 pesos mexicanos per United States dollar

48. Airports

49. RIVIERA MAYA AIRPORT Capacity:
3 million passengers per year (initially)
Runway length: ,450 m
Location: State of Quintana Roo: Playa del Carmen (Solidaridad and Tulum municipalities)
Investment: million dollars (airport complex and access roads)
Expected traffic: thousand passengers per year (first year)
PPP model: Concession: private investment
Bidding process information: In process
Construction duration: 2 years
Description: Construction of a new airport, category OACI “4E”. It includes the construction of the terminal building, a runway, taxiing runways, platform, operation areas, CREI (rescue team), fuel station and control tower.
Benefits: Reduction in journey times, avoiding road transportation from Cancun or Cozumel to the destinations in the Maya Riviera. At the same time, it will allow the diversification of the airport service offer in a region with a tourist runway with a dynamic growth.
Regional Impact: A higher accessibility to the region, support for the development of an international tourist attraction pole and the creation, of both direct and indirect jobs.
Note: The Isla Mujeres-Cancun-Cozumel-Tulum corridor is the most important tourist destination of Mexico. It consists of a demand of 9 million visitor, and it is foreseen that this demand will increase to 17.9 million tourists in 2025.

50. PALENQUE NEW AIRPORT Capacity: 300,000 annual passengers
Runway length: 2,500 m x 45 m
Location: State of Chiapas (Palenque)
Investment: 60 million dollars (plus cost of land acquisition)
Expected traffic: 300,000 annual passengers
PPP model: Public investment (through a Society of Stately Majority Participation): % Chiapas and 49% ASA. Bidding process is not taking place because the concession was assigned to de state of Chiapas government.
Construction duration:
Description: Construction of a New Airport with a capacity of 300,000 passengers per year, including: platform and runways, terminal building (2,500 m2) and complementary infrastructure.
Benefits: Coverage expansion and improvement in the quality of the infrastructure and air transportation services. Savings in time, by changing the way passengers are being transported.
Regional Impact: An increase in air transportation competitiveness regarding infrastructure and airport services.

51. Suburban Railway

52. SYSTEM 2 OF THE MEXICO CITY METROPOLITAN AREA SUBURBAN RAILWAY
(MARTIN CARRERA - JARDINES DE MORELOS)
Length: Martin Carrera – Jardines de Morelos: 26 km
Route: Martin Carrera – Jardines de Morelos
Investment: million dollars (under review)
Location: Mexico City and the State of Mexico
Expected traffic: 79 million passengers per year
PPP model: Concession: Public (Federal and State of Mexico) and private investment
Bidding process information: In process (on hold)
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: The project consists of a suburban electric and confined train (using existing railway infrastructure). It includes the construction of stations, transfer centers, vehicular, pedestrian and railroad bridges, and complementary works.
Benefits: It will improve the quality of life through time savings in a round trip of 1 hr 14 min. It will also reduce road congestion at the Mexico-Pachuca road in the stretch of Indios Verdes-Ecatepec; and will reduce air pollution and fuel consumption.
Regional Impact: Integration of the Northeast Zone of the Federal District and the South of the State of Mexico, as well as the creation of jobs.

53. SYSTEM 3 OF THE MEXICO CITY METROPOLITAN AREA SUBURBAN RAILWAY
(CHALCO - LA PAZ - NEZAHUALCOYOTL)
Length: Chalco-La Paz: km La Paz-Nezahualcoyotl :18.45 km Total: km
Route: Chalco – La Paz – Nezahualcoyotl
Investment: 1,305 million dollars
Location: State of Mexico
Expected traffic: million passengers per year
PPP model: Concession: Public (Federal and State of Mexico) and private investment
Bidding process information: In process
Construction duration: 24 months
Description: Massive railroad passenger transportation system, electrified and confined (using existing railway infrastructure). It includes the construction of stations, transfer centers, vehicular, pedestrian and railroad bridges, and complementary works.
Benefits: Journey time savings (1 hr 20 min), it will contribute to solve road congestion at the Mexico- Puebla highway and federal road, in the stretch between the La Paz Subway station and the zone of the Valley of Chalco. It will also contribute to reduce air pollution and fuel consumption.
Regional Impact: Job creation, integration of the different areas of the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico.

54. Ports

55. SPECIALIZED CONTAINER TERMINAL II IN MANZANILLO
Surface: has. and 1,080 meters of dock length
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Colima (Manzanillo Port)
Expected capacity: Million TEUs per year
Financing source: Private investment, with a partial cession of rights and obligations contract
Bidding award: November 30, 2009
Opening:
Description: Award of a partial cession of rights and obligations contract for the construction, equipment, use, operation and exploitation of the second Specialized Container Terminal (TEC II), in the northern zone of the port precinct of Manzanillo.
Benefits: Consolidation of Manzanillo as the main port of the country for container cargo in order to meet the demand for the Mexican world commerce of the Asia-Pacific region and count with the required infrastructure to host vessels of larger dimensions; offering safety to ships and cargo. Manzanillo handled 1 million 409 thousand TEU in 2008, which represents 43% of the total of containers at the national level and 68% of the pacific shore.
Regional Impact: The reactivation of local and regional trade will consolidate Manzanillo as the regional Hub Port (ferrying). Generation of 1,500 direct and 4,500 indirect jobs. 55

56. SPECIALIZED CONTAINER TERMINAL II IN LAZARO CARDENAS
Surface: 102 hectare and 1,485 meters for docking
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Michoacan (Lazaro Cardenas Port)
Expected capacity: 2 million TEUs per year
Financing source: Private investment, with a partial cession of rights and obligations contract
Probable bidding process date:
Description: The project includes the construction, operation, and exploitation of a Specialized Container Terminal at the Port of Lazaro Cardenas, which will increase total installed capacity from 2 to 4 million TEUs per year. The port counts with a strategic railroad connection for the intermodal links to North America.
Benefits: A competitive infrastructure to meet the demand for national and international container activity. It will offer operative performance with international standards and will increase the operation of the logistic runway Asia- Pacific/North America, turning Mexico into a transcontinental logistics platform.
Regional Impact: The creation of more than 2,900 direct and more than 13,000 indirect jobs, as well as the development of businesses that will give an added value to the port logistics. The project will also contribute to the social, urban, economic and technological development of the region, derived from the development of the port

57. MULTIPLE USE TERMINAL (TUM) IN MAZATLAN
Description: Modernization of the current terminal of multiple uses (TUM) through the reconstruction of a dock, the creation of a specialized area for the handling of containers and the acquisition of port equipment.
Benefits: To transform Mazatlan port into a logistics alternative for the international market, taking advantage of its closeness to important production and consumption centers of the north of the country. Besides, with the conclusion of the Durango- Mazatlan highway, the multimodal corridor Mazatlan- Matamoros will be exploited for the benefit of the region.
Regional Impact: The TUMmodernization and the conclusion of the Durango-Mazatlan highway, forms part of the logistics project of the multimodal corridor Mazatlan-Matamoros (Monterrey, Laredo, Piedras Negras), expanding considerably the influence zone of the port. The development of international transport will also benefit including the railroad to Mexicali in Baja California, Nogales in Sonora, and Ciudad Juarez and Ojinaga in Chihuahua.
Surface: hectare
Investment: 40 million dollars
Location: State of Sinaloa (Mazatlan Port)
Expected capacity: 60 thousand TEUs per year
Financing source: Private investment, with a partial cession of rights and obligations contract
Bidding process information:
2010
Opening:

58. SPECIALIZED CONTAINER TERMINAL IN GUAYMAS
Surface:
5.34 hectare and 320 meters for docking
Investment: 50 million dollars
Location: State of Sonora (Guaymas Port)
Expected capacity: thousand TEUs per year (1st stage)
Financing source: Private investment, with a partial cession of rights and obligation contract
Bidding process information: March, 2010
Opening: 2012
Description: A Specialized Container Terminal (TEC) at the port of Guaymas that would form part of the project of the multimodal corridors Guaymas-Arizona and Guaymas-Mexicali. Besides the operation of the TEC, the contract includes the maneuvers service benefit for containers in docks 2, 3 and 4 (adjacent to the future terminal) that today is operated by API.
Benefits:. The diversification of the businesses of the port, as well as an increase in international trade with origin or destination in Asia and North America. Also, the project will promote the handling of cargo through the logistics options in the Guaymas-Arizona and Guaymas-Mexicali corridors
Regional Impact: It would forecast regional economic development, as a result of direct and indirect job creation.

59. EXPANSION OF THE NORTH ZONE OF THE PORT OF VERACRUZ
Description: The project comprises of the construction of the natural expansion of the port of Veracruz in the north zone, including specialized terminals for containers, agricultural and mineral bulk, fluids and vehicles. It includes breakwaters, dredging, filling and docks for 37 new dockage positions.
Benefits: To meet the demand for maritime transportation in the shore of the Gulf of Mexico/Atlantic Ocean, for exterior commerce of the central region of Mexico, as well as to develop logistic activity areas. With this project the future growth of the port of Veracruz will be viable. It will reduce the level of saturation and will ease congestion at docks and storage. It will improve the operation efficiency and productivity.
Regional Impact: The project of the expansion of the port of Veracruz will have a high regional impact, mainly in the states of Veracruz, State of Mexico, Federal District, Morelos, Puebla, Queretaro, Hidalgo and Nuevo Leon.
Surface: hectare
Investment: 4,100 million dollars
Public: 1,410 million dollars
Private: 2,690 million dollars
Location: State of State of Veracruz (Port of Veracruz)
Expected capacity: 95 million tons per year
Breakwater length: km
Bidding process information:
Construction duration: 4 years

60. DREDGING OF THE CUYUTLAN LAGOON, (SECOND STAGE)
Volume: 12,201,000 m3
Project: To build a Liquefied Natural Gas Station in Manzanillo
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Colima
Expected size of vessels: With a capacity of 200,000 m3 of Gas
Financing source: Fiscal resources ( ) through a public work contract
Bidding process information: February 25, 2010
Construction duration: months
Description: Works for the Liquefied Natural Gas Station of the Federal Commission of Electricity (CFE). The second dredging phase of the access navigation channel areas will be programmed, as well as the turning and maneuvering of basins, the vegetation zones authorized for the ground use change, with a volume of 12.2 million cubic meters, at a depth of m, dumping part of the material 4.0 nautical miles far of the shore, as well as the deposit on ground of the rest of the material.
Benefits: With these works the construction of the operation water areas will be concluded for the navigation and maneuvers of the vessels that will supply the liquefied natural gas .
Regional Impact: The project of the Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal will allow the supply of this fuel to the western region of the country, especially for the electric energy generation through the thermo electrical facilities the Federal Commission of Electricity operates in the region, with the consequent energy saving and the decrease of the pollution levels .

61. CONSTRUCTION OF A MARGINAL PROTECTION AT THE CUYUTLAN LAGOON
Length: Este margin: 1.01 Km West margin: 1.07 Km
Investment: million dollars
Location: State of Colima
Expected vessel’s size: Capacity for 200,000 m3 of Gas
Financing source: Federal resources ( ) through a Public Work contract
Bidding award: June 2010
Construction duration: 11 months
Description: The project is located in the Cuyutlan Lagoon in Manzanillo, State of Colima. The project includes construction work for the Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE). The construction of the marginal protection with a total length of 2.08 km conformed of a rock basis, will protect both margins of the main channel of the access main channel to the port installations of the Cuyutlan Lagoon.
Benefits: These protection structures will allow the access in adequate operation conditions during the 365 days of the year even under extreme wind and wave conditions, protecting at the same time the taluses of the navigation channel.
Regional Impact: The Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal will allow the supply of this fuel to the western region of the country, especially for the electric energy generation through the thermo electrical facilities the Federal Commission of Electricity operates in the region, with the consequent energy saving and the decrease in pollution levels
COLIMA

62. PUNTA COLONET Length: 300 km (preliminary)
Investment: Under revision
Location: State of Baja California
Expected capacity: 1 million TEUs (first year)
PPP model: Concession: private resources
Bidding process information:
TBD
Construction duration: 60 months
Description: A multimodal transport project including a port and a railway. The project is located 140 km south of Ensenada, Baja California. It will include at least one railroad crossing point with the U.S., as well as the rendering of the public railroad cargo service and the permits to render auxiliary services on those routes.
Benefits: To be a competitive port in a growing containers traffic market coming from the southeast of Asia, positioning Mexico as an important player in the logistics handling of trans pacific cargo.
Regional Impact: The project will detonate a new development pole (including a residential development), with the consequent regional economic development including complementary economic activities, suppliers, and activities associated to the operation of a port and a rail system.

63. Communications

64. FREQUENCY BANDS FOR MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES
Coverage:
Regional and National.
Foreign investment:
100% for mobile phone services and limited to 49% for landline services.
The 49% limit may be increased via a “neutral” foreign investment scheme.
Limits to the accumulation of spectrum.
Yes
Bidding rules publication:
AWS and PCS: November 2009.
MHz band:
December January 2010.
Description: Three biddings will take place:
1) 90 MHz of spectrum in the / MHz AWS (Advanced Wireless Services) frequency range,
2) 30 MHz of spectrum in the / MHz PCS (Personal Communication Service) band, and
3) 150 MHz of spectrum in the MHz band.
Benefits: To strengthen competition in the communications sector in order to achieve higher quality and lower prices in third generation mobile services. At the moment, three companies offer mobile phone services in Mexico. These auctions intend to foster the entry of at least two new operators to the market.
Impact: The goal is to promote economic growth through the use of information technologies. The number of mobile phone users is expected to increase from 55.4 million in 2006 to 86 million in It is also expected that these biddings will increase broadband coverage from 2.9 to 22 users per 100 population in the same period.

65. Auction of part of the Federal Electricity Commission's dark fiber network
Coverage:
19,467 km with over 300 network access points.
Foreign investment:
Limited to 49% which may be increased via a “neutral” foreign investment scheme.
Probable publication of the bidding rules:
December 2009.
Probable bidding award:
1st quarter of 2010.
Description: Auction of a pair of dark fiber threads that are part of the Federal Electricity Commission's network. The term of the concession is 20 years, which is renewable for a maximum of 10 years.
The bidding winner will decide the date in which the fiber will be lit and the equipment to do so.
Benefits: A reduction in interurban network prices, which at the moment are, on average, up to four times higher than in other countries.
Telecommunications providers will be able to operate under more competitive conditions along with the largest broadband provider.
Impact: It will contribute to increase broadband coverage from 2.9 per 100 population in 2006 to 22 in 2012.

66. Project leaders and
contact details

67. PROJECT LEADERS AND CONTACT DETAILS
Road Infrastructure (pages 10 to 41)
Name: Ricardo Erazo
Position: Chief of Advisors to the Undersecretary for Infrastructure
Telephone: +52(55)
Transportation (pages 42 to 53)
Name: Luis Manuel Macías
Position: Chief of Advisors to the Undersecretary for Transportation
Telephone: +52(55)
Ports (pages 54 to 62)
Name: Sergio Vera
Position: Chief of Advisors to the General Coordinator of Ports and Merchant Marine
Telephone: +52(55)
Communications (pages 63 to 65)
Name: Andres Casco Flores
Position: Chief of Advisors to the Undersecretary for Communications
Telephone: +52(55)
Office of the Secretary of Communications and Transportation
Name: Amado Crôtte
Position: Chief of Advisors to the Secretary of Communications and Transportation
Telephone: +52(55)