by Donald Wood
Last updated: 10:15 AM ET, Tue May 23, 2023
Government officials in Mexico
announced that the new airport project in Tulum would be completed by the end
of the year.
According to Riviera
Maya News, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Quintana Roo Governor
Mara Lezama Espinosa revealed the Felipe Carrillo Puerto Tulum International
Airport project would be completed in December 2023.
President Lopez Obrador and Governor Lezama Espinosa made
the announcement during a tour of the Tulum airport’s construction site.
“We are carrying out for the first time the evaluation of
section 5 of the Maya Train where the Tulum Airport, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, is
being built, a new marvel of civil-military engineering and the work of
exceptional Mexican workers,” President Lopez Obrador said.
“In December it will be possible to fly to anywhere in
Mexico and the world,” he continued.
Governor Lezama thanked the Secretary of National Defense
for the work on the new airport and said the region’s more than 30 million
passengers a year are anticipating the completion of the project by “December
of this year.”
Last week, government officials in Quintana Roo announced
that over a mile of anti-sargassum barriers would be installed along the
beaches of Tulum.
The region’s port authority revealed plans to install 2,618 linear meters (over
8,500 feet) of sargassum containment barrier.
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