The companies Sempra Infraestructura , specialized in energy projects, as well as the e-commerce platform Mercado Libre , announced investments for six thousand 950 million dollars (mdd) , announced this Friday Marcelo Ebrard , head of the Ministry of Economy .
“President (Claudia) Sheinbaum asked us to make an investment portfolio, I mentioned it to her on a previous occasion. Today, almost 6.5 billion dollars are going to be announced right now,” the federal official informed at the morning conference.
Tania Ortiz Mena , president of Sempra Infrastructure, announced that they are maintaining ongoing investments of 3.55 billion dollars in Baja California, focused on the energy sector and that have generated approximately 19 thousand direct and indirect jobs.
He recalled that the company has been operating for almost 29 years in Mexico in 17 states of the country and that, to date, they have disbursed 13.6 billion dollars in energy infrastructure.
Currently, he indicated, the ECA or Energía Costa Azul LNG project is advancing in Ensenada , which is a natural gas terminal, with an investment of three billion dollars ; while in La Rumorosa the Cimarrón Wind Farm is being developed with 550 million dollars , which will be the fifth park of this type of the firm in Mexico, with 300 megawatts of installed capacity , creating 900 direct jobs and 1,400 indirect jobs . This facility will begin operations in the first half of next year.
“These projects help to deepen the energy transition, strengthen energy security and generate shared prosperity,” said Tania Ortiz.
Mercado Libre and its largest investment in the company’s history in Mexico
For his part, David Geisen , CEO of Mercado Libre Mexico, announced that this company will invest 3.4 billion dollars this year, an outlay that will be used to strengthen its technological, logistical and financial ecosystem.
According to the executive, this is the largest annual investment in the history of Mercado Libre in Mexico, and represents a growth of 38% compared to the investment in 2024.
At the conference, he explained that in 2025, more than 10,000 new people will be added to the firm in Mexico, mainly in the areas of logistics, fintech , commercial and administration areas.
“These 10,000 new jobs will be added to the 25,000 we already have at Mercado Libre Mexico, so we hope to end the year with over 35,000 employees here in Mexico,” he said.
David Geisen recalled that Mercado Libre has been operating in Mexico for more than 25 years, and they have prioritized the country because currently “it is our second largest market in the entire region.”
“In the last five years, plus the investment we are going to make this year, we will have injected more than 10 billion dollars into the country. Our impact is permanent and sustained,” he said, and highlighted that the company’s logistics network is made up of 12 distribution centers.
“Our logistics network connects the country by air and land. We already have 12 distribution centers in Mexico, four cargo planes from our air hub in Querétaro, 100 logistics and last mile facilities, almost a thousand electric vans circulating in the cities. And all this to be able to offer same-day delivery of millions of products to millions of Mexicans in 25 cities in the country,” he said.
In the financial field, he highlighted that Mercado Pago has become the second digital account with the most users in Mexico, and highlighted the strategic alliances they have established with the 32 states of the country and with three secretariats, who have their official stores on their platform to promote Made in Mexico .
Both investments take place in the context of threats of the imposition of 25% tariffs on various Mexican products by Donald Trump , President of the United States, who on March 6 paused said tax on products that are in the Treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC) until April 2.
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