Economy

In 2006 local conglomerate Grupo UNNE and Hong Kong-headquartered Hutchison Ports signed a strategic alliance to build the Intermodal Logistics Terminal of Hidalgo (TILH) in Tula, in the west of the state. Francisco Orozco, commercial director for Mexico at Hutchinson Ports, told OBG that the agreement envisioned “the terminal of the future”. The TILH became the only...

According to an OECD statement delivered in May 2019, SMEs will play a key role in the economic development of Hidalgo. The organisation suggested that the state should look to create “a more strategic vision to integrate local programmes with funding and leverage the National Entrepreneur Fund”. The fund, however, no longer exists; it was created in 2013 as an initiative of...

Compared to three other sectors selected as strategic by Hidalgo’s state government, the chemical-pharmaceuticals sector has additional room to grow in terms of the aggregate amount of investment that has arrived during the tenure of this administration.

With the state capital, Pachuca, just 90 km north of Mexico City, Hidalgo’s location has long been a draw for investment. Economic growth in the country’s capital has attracted even more attention to the central state as it is the only flat territory that Mexico City and its suburbs can expand to. Its strategic location has brought transport and logistics infrastructure, as...