Yesterday Mazatlán’s newspaper Noroeste reported that the panga owners had renewed their permits and transportation to Stone Island had returned. Today both El Sol de Mazatlán and El Debate reported that although the pangas have resumed their ferry service to Stone Island the permits have not been renewed.
On Monday Gustavo Gómez Rangel, Captain of the Port of Mazatlán, said “Since Friday I have asked them (panga owners) to bring the insurance policy so they could work and to renew their permits by today, but so far that has not happened and if they do not I will definitely suspend activities.”
The Harbor Master added, “They put me between a rock and a hard place; they leave me defenseless because I’m here to enforce the law and they seem to not do anything, but what if something happens?”
Gómez Rangel said he had he received calls from Governor Mario López Valdez, and Mayor Carlos Felton asking that the service not be suspended, but added, “they should also make a call to boaters to legalize their operations and comply with the law.”
No date was set for the suspension of the pangas operations.
(from El Debate and El Sol de Mazatlán)
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