News Heineken to build $2.75bn brewery in the Yucatán peninsula Dutch brewer Heineken is to invest $2.75bn in a brewery in the Yucatán peninsula, the Mexico Daily News reports. The company, which has been in Mexico for 135 years, already…
News Mexico to invest $6.6bn in airport upgrade programme Mexico plans to raise $6.6bn in public and private funds to upgrade 62 airports by 2030. Tania Carro Toledo, undersecretary for communications and transportation told the National Transportation Infrastructure Forum…
News Mexico starts first four lines in $58bn rail expansion plan Mexico has launched four rail projects as part of its six-year rail development plan. The first to start will be a 220km link between Mexico City and the industrial hub…
News Volvo to spend more on Mexican truck factory despite Trump’s tariffs Swedish automotive giant Volvo will raise its investment in a new truck factory in Mexico from $700m to $1bn, despite President Trump’s 25% tariffs on vehicle imports from its southern…
News Granite Construction to build $70m section of Trump’s border wall US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has selected Granite Construction to build an 11km-long wall in Hidalgo County, Texas, on the Mexican border. The agency said the wall section will…
News Mexico to spend $6.1bn on water, sewage and flood defences Mexico will invest $6.1bn on 17 water projects in regions hit by drought and flooding over the next six years, news website Aquínoticias reports. The country is increasingly prone to…
News Mexico’s Azteca stadium to be renovated for 2026 World Cup Mexico City’s Azteca stadium will be extensively renovated before the 2026 World Cup Finals tournament, ESPN reports.
News Builders welcome Trump’s 30-day tariff pause US house builders have welcomed Donald Trump’s 30-day pause on his plan to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, but they urge more dialogue to make the…
News Trump’s tariffs will stoke US housing crisis, builders say Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada and Mexico, announced Saturday, will raise the cost of vital materials used in residential construction and fuel the housing affordability crisis,…
News Mexico celebrates completion of Tren Maya 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…
News Mexican road workers uncover 1,400-year-old pyramid 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…
News Mexico to spend $1.6bn on port expansions 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…
News California to start building an extra Mexican border crossing California will start work next month on a new port of entry at its border with Mexico, Governor Gavin Newsom said yesterday.
News World Bank lends Mexican developer $301m to build green housing 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…
News Mexico to build a million homes buyable with zero-interest mortgages 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…
News Foxconn to build ‘very, very enormous’ Nvidia plant in Mexico 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…
News Mexican port plans $600m expansion to tap US ‘nearshoring’ boom 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…
News Mexico’s new president has ambitious plans for infrastructure 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…