Storms keep Mexican oil ports shut

Mexico kept its main crude exporting ports closed today due to bad weather that hit earlier in the week, the transport ministry said.

The Gulf of Mexico ports of Dos Bocas, Cayo Arcas and Coatzacoalcos, which together ship some 80% of Mexico’s oil exports, remained shut, as was the Pacific Coast oil port of Salina Cruz.


Authorities had begun closing around a dozen commercial ports from Tuesday, but several reopened on today, including the smaller Gulf Coast oil ports of Ciudad Madero, part of Tampico, and Altamira.

A spokeswoman at state-owned oil monopoly Pemex said the weather was already improving, meaning Cayo Arcas could reopen later today and other ports should be operating again tomorrow.

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