A month after the head of government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, met with entrepreneurs from the Baja California Aerospace Cluster, the local Secretary of Economic Development, Fadlala Akabani Hneide, revealed in an interview with Forbes Mexico that there are three companies interested in investing close to 12,000 million pesos in the industrial zone of Vallejo, where Pantaco, the most important dry port in Latin America, is located.
Akabani Hneide explained that this month the three companies will visit the industrial zone of Vallejo.
“Three companies are coming, one of them is foreign, it is an Indian company established in Los Angeles that manufactures many things for Virgin Mobile. They are very interested in having part of their value chain in Vallejo”, she said.
The other two are Mexican companies that belong to the Baja California Aerospace Cluster, with which Sheinbaum began contact in November of last year.
The two Mexican companies, indicated the Secretary of Economic Development, "are in Baja California and are part of the value chain in the United States, but they are very interested in participating in the value chain of the Mexican aerospace industry and from Pantaco exporting parts to the whole world”, taking advantage of the fact that the dry port of the capital has a connection with Asia and Europe through the ports of Lázaro Cárdenas and Veracruz.
"We are talking about 12,000 million pesos of investment between the three," revealed Akabani Hneide.
Her presence in the Vallejo industrial zone would focus on planning, design, training, logistics and manufacturing of light products for the country's aerospace industry.
“Vallejo's great virtue is Pantaco because they connect with China from Lázaro Cárdenas and with Europe from Veracruz. Pantaco is a great opportunity”, she pointed out.
The aerospace industry in Mexico generated exports in 2019, prior to the pandemic, for 9.7 billion dollars and imports for 7 billion dollars, with a surplus of 2.5 billion dollars. However, generating more highly specialized training would make it possible to reduce the amount of imports and thus obtain greater added value in the industry.
According to the Mexican Federation of the Aerospace Industry (FMIA), this sector is the most dynamic in the country with sustained growth of 14% per year over the last 15 years. It is made up of more than 350 companies that generate 60,000 jobs in 19 entities in the country, and the sector ranks seventh in exports to the United States.
In the first formal approach of the Aerospace Cluster of Baja California, held on December 7 at the Vallejo Technological Development and Innovation Center, companies such as Development of Drones and Functional Systems were present; 3L Pharma; Armax Solar, Auspace Special Technology; HITEC Group; Mundotel Telecommunications; Proteus Armor Drones; Safran Aerospace Group; Siemens, Spacemex Baja, among others.
The Secretary of Economic Development stressed that the aerospace industry “is the business of the future, there will be delivery of merchandise in hours, neither by plane nor by ship. There will be transit aerospace rockets to speed up the entire production chain. The aerospace industry, which is the distribution industry of the future, is going to continue advancing”.
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El secretario de Desarrollo Económico reveló que hay 3 empresas de la industria aeroespacial interesadas en la CDMX.
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