Oh oh...,word is they are panicking that the money to finish will be there with the delays and huge cost over runs.
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Home Port of Puerto Penasco in Sonora is postponed one year
They waste cruises. Modify project initiated in 2013 by difficulties in building
Rolando Chacón
Hermosillo, Sonora
09 MAR2015
8:41
Home delivery Port of Puerto Peñasco, the point of departure and return for tourist cruises scheduled for the second half of 2015, was delayed a year because of difficulties in building and conflict between carriers.
Puerto Peñasco area where the dock will be built for the arrival of cruise ships.
Photo: Rolando Chacón / Reform
The draft thousand 400 million pesos, which could trigger an economic impact of 12 million dollars a month in this population the Sea of Cortez, you must wait at least for the second half of 2016.
Javier Tapia Camou, Sonora tourism commissioner, said there was a change of materials in the project recently resumed, and although no shipping involved, must first ascertain the progress.
"We had to modify the project for reasons of nature, because the stone was considered to be had, it was not so, they had to make adjustments and details of the project. They have to do with concrete pipes, already are building concrete pipe "revealed Tapia Camou.
Besides the change of materials, the differences between transport unions charge of moving the materials, who conducted strikes in 2013 and 2014, delayed the work.
The work, which began in January 2013 in the Sandy Beach area of Puerto Peñasco, consists of a breakwater, a platform for building a cruise ship dock, an avenue of access and a pedestrian boardwalk to beach reclaimed sea.
Tapia Camou explained that after the changes in the project, in early March, the works focused on the jetty, but soon begin construction of the pier.
To do this, on the beach are to be emptied into molds 150 cubic concrete blocks a ton to form cubes 8000 10 tons requiring the dock.
"I hope that next year could be, but it will depend very much also that resources are not cut out for this project that is so important to the northwest of the country, it is not just for Sonora" he said.
Between 2013 and 2014 490 million dollars contributed by the Federation for the project were implemented, while 300 million pesos are expected to conclude in 2016 with about 600 million in 2015.
Despite the delay, shipping companies that have docked in Sonora are interested in making Puerto Peñasco their point of departure and return, as Holland America, Princess and Azamara
