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Garza: “We all benefit from initiatives that allow us to travel faster and cheaper. When waiting periods shrink, the cost of goods and doing business falls too. Speeding up car and truck travel will benefit all three NAFTA countries. The United States is making a sound investment by providing the funds and technical assistance Mexico needs to take an important country-wide transportation plan off the drawing board and make it a reality.”
Mexican Transportation Under Secretary Dr. Aaron Dychter, and U.S. Trade and Development Agency Director Thelma J. Askey shake hands after signing the agreement; U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief Stephen R. Kelly, right, looks on. |
Mexico City, April 27, 2006 – “The United States will give a grant totaling US $1.3 million to Mexico’s Department of Communication and Transportation, to help this agency create a Master Plan to promote multimodal transportation corridors. Industrialized countries rely on these roads to move billions of dollars each day, and they are key to the rapid movement of goods and people across our shared border and throughout Mexico,” said Ambassador Antonio O. Garza.
U.S. Trade and Development Agency Director Thelma J. Askey and Mexican Transportation Under Secretary Dr. Aaron Dychter Poltolarek signed the agreement authorizing the grant during a ceremony held today in the Department of Communication and Transportation.
“This grant is just the first step in a prolonged Mexican plan to ensure its competitiveness well into the future. The bottom line is: if you cannot move people and goods, you cannot move your economy … it’s that simple,” added Garza.
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