Salina Cruz. Oax.- Raymundo Morales Ángeles, general director of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT), reported that the tickets for the Interoceanic Railroad, which will be inaugurated this Friday by President López Obrador departing from Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, to Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, are sold out until December 30.
He detailed that on the railroad there will be three travel rates whose prices range from 457 pesos in tourist class to 1,554 pesos in managerial class.
At the morning press conference, the general director of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, indicated that the demand will be monitored and if there was more demand, more trains could be put and detailed that the way to buy the tickets is online and at the stations.
“We have already started selling the tickets; there are two ways to buy tickets, one is online and the other is at the kiosks at the station. But I’m going ahead that for now there are no tickets for today. They all sold out, the 475 tickets and we have sold out until December 30 as well.
“However, we are going to monitor the demand and if there was more demand we could put more trains,” he said.
What time does the Interoceanic Train leave?
Raymundo Morales Ángeles anticipated that they will seek to keep a “very strict” schedule because, he indicated that the important thing in this trip is not the arrival, but the departure to make it efficient.
“The important thing about this trip is not the arrival, but the departure to make it efficient. So the train has to leave at the time that is established in the schedule.”
He pointed out that the departure from Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz will be at 7:00 in the morning and 7:00 from Salina Cruz and will have a journey of seven hours.
“We consider that we are in a pre-opening period (for which) we have to verify the demand, we have to verify the security, we are only going to make one trip a day, but as we have more demand we put the return the same day or the next day as we see it,” he said.
Source: El Universal
