• INVESTMENT: Mexico’s cruise ship industry is asking the new López Obrador Administration to incentivize private investment for the modernization of port infrastructure that could solidify the industry’s two-digit growth last year, which set a record-high of 8.9 million in total passenger traffic.
• CABO: Among the Mexican ports with aging infrastructure is Cabo San Lucas in the Baja peninsula, where the private sector has been pushing for the construction of a cruise terminal. Currently, cruise ships that arrive in Cabo San Lucas anchor offshore in the bay and tender to the Marina.
• MEETINGS: “We want to have meetings with the (López Obrador Administration) economic cabinet…We would be delighted to bring them extremely interested investors”, said Arturo Musi, head of Mexico’s Association of Cruise Line Service Providers (AMEPACT).
• BULWARK: Mexico’s cruise industry is anchored in two key ports on the Caribbean Coast. First and foremost, Cozumel, the third busiest cruise port in the world by passenger traffic (4.5 million in 2019). Second, Majahual, which experienced rapid growth in passenger traffic last year (1.6 million).
