| Belize Asked To Hop Abroad Mexico's Tren Maya |
| Wed, March 27, 2024 |
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It's one of the biggest Mexican tourism initiatives ever - and now Belize is hoping to hop onto Mexico's "Tren Maya". It's a 28 billion dollar, thousand mile intercity railway that spans southeastern Mexico - from Cancun to Chetumal across to Palenque.
On Monday, investment ambassadors Jaime Briceño and Haisam Diab, and Belize's Ambassador to Mexico, Oscar Arnold met with representatives of the Tren Maya in Mérida to ask them to add a stop in Belize.
An official release says "Discussions centered around the possibility of establishing one of the stations at Belize's Northern Border with Mexico, thereby providing passenger and freight service for Belize to all of southern Mexico."
The route linking Chetumal and Cancún is scheduled for completion between June and July 2024. This will open access to an additional estimated four million travelers yearly as well as provide an alternative route for Belizean products to penetrate Mexican markets."
Then Maya is the largest project of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
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