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The tenders involved in the construction of the Mayan Train, which was approved in a popular consultation last weekend, will take into account social and environmental responsibility actions by the interested companies. Rogelio Jiménez Pons, director of the National Fund for Tourism Promotion (Fonatur), indicated that one of the guidelines that will guide the next tender for the Mayan Train will be to have medium and large Mexican companies as suppliers of inputs for the large corporations that will build the work. . “There are a series of requirements to be able to bid in technical and economic terms for the amounts that this type of work will be, and we also have an item in terms of social responsibility, you have to have that type of characteristic (social responsibility) in the companies that we are going to convene,” he indicated.
The federal official added that "the contracts include a series of aspects that we are going to try to influence, such as the correct treatment of subcontractors, local suppliers, as well as guaranteeing that there is an economic impact of large contractors on local economies." . The official in charge of the Mayan Train added that all construction companies that wish to participate in the project will be called, which Nepal WhatsApp Number will link the tourist destinations of Chiapas, Campeche, Yucatán, Tabasco and Quintana Roo. He mentioned that the office in his charge is working on designing tools so that the corporations participating in the Mayan Train have positive impacts on the economy and on local companies, while having a general benefit from this infrastructure. He described it as vital that the participating companies have various regulations on social responsibility, environmental protection, local job creation, hiring of local companies, etc. The Mayan Train will have a route of 1,500 kilometers from Palenque, Chiapas to Cancún, Quintana, crossing the states of Tabasco, Campeche and Yucatán.
The director of Fonatur said that in the first week of January 2020 the tenders will be launched and the construction works of the Mayan Train will begin between March and April, and he called on companies “to prepare to participate.” He announced that the Mayan Train route, in the Cancún-Tulum and Tulum-Mérida section, is considered to have a double track due to market conditions, since according to the studies it is where there is the greatest demand. AMLO: assured investment President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), when presenting the results of the indigenous and municipal consultation in the southeast of the country on the Mayan Train, declared that the approval of more than 92% for this project gives rise to the launch of its first tenders for the month of January 2020 in a first section of 800 kilometers, where basic engineering already exists. He ratified that the Federation has 120 billion pesos for the work and 60 billion pesos insured, thanks to tourism taxes that were no longer applied to other items and that will be allocated to the train. The amount of resources amounts to 8,000 million pesos per year, which will be allocated entirely to the construction of the Mayan Train.