Pemex to buy Mexican boats
BY LILLIAN REYES
The News
After two decades of Mexico not building boats, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) announced on Thursday that they will renovate their fleet, marked by the placement of keels on the first two tugboats to be built by Industrial Naval Services in the port of Mazatlán, Sinaloa.
The new tugboats are part of the 22 boat fleet that Pemex is building in conjunction with the Marine Secretariat at a total investment of 3.4 billion pesos ($257 million). The rejuvenated fleet will include 16 tugboats, three loading vessels and three oil barges.
Director of International Commerce (PMI) at Pemex, José Manuel Carrera Panizzo as a representative of Pemex Director General Emilio Lozoya Austin, said that Pemex will continue to promote the marine industry because a high percentage of national oil costs are created abroad.
For the process of modernizing Pemex the company needs strong and dependable naval industry partners, said Carrera. The company will take advantage of strategic location because the future of Mexico depends on the development of the naval industry, which will not only favor the petroleum industry but also transportation and fishing, said the representative.
Mexico has the opportunity to enter the market of cheep combustibles, north of the Gulf in the United States and also the more expensive market in the Asian Pacific, he said.
The new Pemex tugboats will also be built in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, the port of Veracruz and Mazatlán.
Vice Admiral of the Marine Secretariat José Antonio Sierra Rodríguez said that the development of the naval industry in Mexico is part of a sweeping strategy to develop the energy sector.
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