Mexico has suspended bidding on development of a deep-water shipping port on the Baja California coast that would be linked with by proposed rail line with Yuma.
Mexico’s Ministry of Communications and Transportation said in a recently published announcement it was canceling bidding on the Punta Colonet project amid a drop in maritime commerce stemming from the world economic situation.
Officials of the area’s transportation planning agency, the Yuma Metropolitan Planning Organization, say they don’t believe the suspension in bidding means the Punta Colonet project is dead.