After four years of work, Mexico has completed the 1,540km Tren Maya railway, with recently elected president Claudia Sheinbaum inaugurating the final section on Monday. She opened the seventh and…

A road building project in Mexico has uncovered the base of a pyramid that may be about 1,400 years old.  The discovery, made in June, was reported by the National…

Mexico’s new president Claudia Sheinbaum said her government will spend $1.6bn expanding six seaports to promote industrial growth. On the Pacific Coast, the ports of Manzanillo, Ensenada, Lázaro Cárdenas, and…

California will start work next month on a new port of entry at its border with Mexico, Governor Gavin Newsom said yesterday.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank, will lend $301m to a developer in Mexico to build “affordable, green housing”. The loan is going to developer and…

The newly elected president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, has launched a plan to build a million homes people can buy with zero-interest mortgages. Her “Housing and Regularisation Programme” aims to…

Taiwanese chipmaker Foxconn plans to build one of the world’s largest assembly plants for US tech company Nvidia in Guadalajara, Mexico, Reuters reports.  The plant will bundle Nvidia’s GB200 superchips…

The Port of Lázaro Cárdenas on Mexico’s Pacific coast will invest $617m to expand its capacity over the next six years to meet American companies’ growing demand for “nearshoring”, the…

The newly installed president of Mexico has set out plans to build 3,000km of railways, a million homes, and a series of logistics hubs as part of an ambitious national…

Italian cable-car specialist Leitner has won a $100m contract to build a transport system in Morelia, capital of the central Mexican state of Michaocán.

Spanish construction group Rubau and Mexican civil engineer VISE have won a €300m public–private partnership contract to build and maintain a toll road between the towns of Silao and San…

Chinese lifting equipment manufacturer Sinoboom has broken ground on a 186,667-sq-m factory in Silao, central Mexico. It will have the capacity to produce 20,000 units a year, including scissor lifts,…

Singaporean renewable energy company Aslan Energy Capital plans to build a massive green hydrogen scheme in the northeast Mexican state of Sonora. According to website Mexico Business, the company, which…

US-headquartered equipment maker Bobcat has broken ground on a $300m, 700,000-sq-ft factory in Mexico. The plant will produce select compact track and skid-steer loader models. It is designed by US-based Shultz + Associates Architects,…

Construction has begun on “Legend”, a 190m-tall, mixed-use tower in the central Mexican city of Guadalajara. The tower was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in collaboration with Mexico…

BMW has announced that construction has begun on an expansion of its factory in San Luis Potosí, central Mexico. The 80,000 sq m extension will make high-voltage batteries for the…

Mexico’s transport ministry has cancelled 559 highway maintenance tenders and asked the army to take on the work instead, newspaper El Economista reports. The cancellation on 6 February appears to…

Portuguese contractor Mota-Engil has signed three contracts in Angola and another in Mexico together worth $1.1bn. The company’s African subsidiary said Monday that Angola’s public works ministry had picked it…