President Enrique Peña Nieto’s term wound down in 2018, after six years that greatly impacted the country’s infrastructure industry and sustainability drive. Peña Nieto was able to position Mexico’s thriving industrial, tourism and real-estate sectors globally while also successfully launching the construction of the New Mexico International Airport (NAIM). The country demonstrated its attractiveness to international investors not only for real-estate developments but for transport and social infrastructure through the stock market and the establishment of PPPs. As the year ends, Peña Nieto will hand over a stable economy with many challenges but even more opportunities to boost the country’s infrastructure competitiveness, one of the areas successor Andrés Manuel López Obrador has prioritized.
2017/18 also saw an abundance of uncertainty, with global trade friction rattling investors and the Mexican presidential election itself impacting project progress.
