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If the port is modernized, the municipalities would
benefit from 20 years of development along the corridor.
Although it has been over a year since the Mazatlán-Durango highway opened, the door to the Corredor Económico del Norte remains shut.
Mayors from 17 municipalities along the geographic corridor agreed at a meeting yesterday that in order for the strategic route north to be successful, it is necessary for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to fulfill his 2014 promise to budget 1,300 million pesos to improve Mazatlán´s port.
Speaking at the conference held in the Angela Peralta Theater, Durango Mayor Esteban Villegas Villarreal said Mazatlán is the entrance door to the Corredor Económico del Norte and the municipalities and States that form the corridor must present a united front so that the port receives financial resources.
He went on to encourage the Mayors to fight harder and send messages to Federal authorities to visit Mazatlán because the upgrading of the port will not only benefit the city but also the States of Durango, Nayarit, Zacatecas, Chihuahua, Tamaulipas, Neuvo León and Coahuila which form the corridor to the north.
Villegas Villarreal said in his opinion the mayoral conference would be very productive, if nothing other than to plan a united front and realize the States are not in competition but complement each other.
If the port is modernized, said the Durango Mayor, the municipalities would benefit from 20 years of development along the corridor attracting businesses to invest and offering jobs with higher salaries.
(from Noroeste)
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