The authorities of the Tehuantepec Isthmus Railway (FIT) plan to offer a double stowage service next year, which would allow it to mobilize up to 260 20-foot containers (TEU) for each train run.
Rear Admiral Alan Cruz Saba, general director of the FIT, explained that due to the orography and slopes of the region, the train’s movement capacity is 65 cars, which allows it to move 130 TEU.
“The perspective we have is the movement of double-stacked containers, cargo is already taking place, agricultural cargo, wheat, cement, cargo in general,” he said in a presentation during the monthly meeting of the Mexican Intermodal Transport Association. (AMTI) .
Carlos Barreda Westphal, director of the Ferroviaria.mx platform , explained that double stowage is in the transport of containerized cargo and depends on the existence of infrastructure and terminals to carry it out.
He recalled that previously the FIT could not provide this service due to the conditions of the road , “they were never kept in good condition, and there were also no volumes of cargo to drive it.”
Alan Cruz Saba said that, as part of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT) , they aim to implement a multimodal logistics platform that can enhance the growth and development of the country.
“This is not only a corridor, it is not only a train, it is not only about generating money but about supporting the economy, helping families in the region and with the implementation of the Development Poles (of Wellbeing) not only “We are going to ensure that the industry is there, but they are also going to have income because they are going to have to build schools and various services,” he explained.
The FIT is part of the CIIT presidential project with which the Mexican government has made available investments to adapt both the train tracks, as well as to develop new infrastructure around the seaports, as well as the dry ports or industrial parks that are being built. They have put out to tender to host companies from multiple sectors.
The CIIT, as its managers have specified, is not intended as a competition for the Panama Canal, but rather as an alternative interoceanic crossing (between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans) for goods.
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