29 June 2007
Cozumel New Marina
| In a couple of months they will be putting out to bid the construction work of the new marina that is planned in the north of the avenue Rafael Melgar. The infrastructure is supposed to open the market of yachts for Cozumel and will create a point of alternative dockings downtown ferry pier of the island.
The project already counts on all the federal permissions, is a project that is promoted by City Hall and has also municipal licenses.
The Marina called San Miguel will be a pier for boats and for yates of luxury, that besides will include a commercial area and a capable pier to receive ships of the size of the shuttles that unite the island with Playa del Carmen.
This project will be built north of the existing fiscal pier downtown, between the streets 4 and 6 North, front of the building of the Museum of the Island of Cozumel.
According to reports by the municipal government, the project was elaborated by the Sustainable Integral Coastal Administration, or ACIS, that is a municipal agency of new creation that possesses and administers a concession on practically all the coast of the island.
The government will put it now to contest of tenders so that the construction companies interested compete for it, which should begin to occur this same year.
The objective manifesto of the project of the marina is to have a point so that to Cozumel sailboats arrive more and private yates, as well as "to clear" the zone front of the present and only pier.
The project has received some criticisms, which affirm that will modify permanently the urban profile of the city and will affect one of the oldest parts of the jetty of Cozumel, which has borne hurricanes and all types of storms for some five decades.
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|  Posted: Jun 14th, 2007 at 05:43 am | |
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The API is considering to build alternate piers for the service of the ferries and independent tourist vessels that today leave from the downtown ferry pier. The construction of the new passenger terminal of Cozumel is in the phase of bidding to decide the construction company that will execute the work.
The terminal of the Muelle San Miguel of Cozumel is the pier of coastal traffic specialized in the movement of people in which the major shuttle passengers flow from all the mainland.
More than 6 thousand people every day make the crossing between Cozumel and Playa del Carmen, a figure that is increased in a notable way during the vacation periods.
The fiscal Muelle San Miguel has turned out to be besides the most solid harbor structure of the island, being the only pier that was left almost unharmed from the onslaught of "Wilma" and because of it became the "umbilical cord" of Cozumel during the hardest days of its recovery.
Now, in a first phase, the API will invest more than 28 million pesos in the project of construction of a new passenger terminal.
It will be a two-floor building and of more than 1,200 square meters of extension, and in this installation there will be all types of comforts for the people, that today lack even spaces to sit down. The project already is approved and defined, for which now only is sought the construction business that will execute it.
Among others things, this new installation will take into account the construction of alternate piers for boats in the south side of the fiscal pier, toward the terrace of the flag, something that will respond to a mature demand of the boatmen that work removing trips of tourism on the ferry pier.
These people, mostly, are small businessmen that with their own boats try to compete for the market of the tourism that arrives at Cozumel and that now will have a more worthy space to exercise their work.
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