Mexican official promotes benefits of Baja port project

“The mega container port and rail project planned 150 miles south of San Diego at Baja California’s Punta Colonet will benefit the United States as well as Mexico, a top Mexican federal official said yesterday. ‘This is a very important project. It’s a project that should be taken in the interest of both nations. Even though it’s on Mexican soil, the United States should be interested in this project,’ said Manuel Rodríguez Arregui, the Mexican subsecretary of transportation overseeing the project… Plans call for the Colonet port to be as large as the Los Angeles and Long Beach facilities combined. The new port would occupy nearly 7,000 acres”.