Mexico

As part of ongoing energy reforms, Mexico’s authorities aim to reduce costs, protect the environment and develop power sector infrastructure by stimulating competition in electricity generation and transmission, while the National Centre of Energy Control (Centro Nacional de Control de Energía, CENACE) maintains control of transmission by...

San Luis Potosí’s automotive industry could hardly have asked for a worse start to 2017, but the state’s strengths have not changed, and optimism returned in a matter of weeks. Ford Motor’s withdrawal from San Luis Potosí in January 2017 meant the cancellation of a $1.6bn investment and the loss of up to 2800 jobs. However, the US company was...

Announced in 2013, Mexico’s energy reforms were the centrepiece of President Enrique Peña Nieto’s strategy to revitalise the national economy and reverse the decline in hydrocarbons production that has been in evidence over the past decade. Central to these efforts was ending the monopoly of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) on the exploration,...

The global airline industry is facing serious challenges as demand for passenger aircraft across the globe grows; US manufacturer Boeing anticipated that a further 38,050 aircraft with a total value of $5.6trn will be required by 2034. From modest beginnings at the turn of the century, Mexico has developed a multi-billion-dollar aerospace...

Recent reforms have opened up Mexico’s energy markets with the promise of greater levels of investment, more competition and stronger economic growth. For these benefits to realise their maximum potential and reach all regions of the country, it is essential that infrastructure of sufficient quantity and quality is put in place.