Holland America is planning to have one cruise ship a week on the Sea of Cortez route as of 2011, stated Simon Douwes, Planning and Scheduling Director, who recently confirmed that at the latest in three years, Puerto Penasco will become the site for the arrival and departure of cruise ships.
Plans are to make between 50 and 60 trips in the ?World's Aquarium?, departing from Puerto Penasco to Guaymas, Loreto, La Paz and Topolobampo, and then, returning to the port of departure.
He stated that the Sea of Cortez route is excellent for the company, because in only seven days they can go to six Mexican ports, which will provide a myriad of attractions.
On the other hand, the coordinator of the Commission for the Development of Tourist of the State Government, Epifanio Salido Pavlovich, explained that initially there will be a 14 day route that will depart from San Diego, California, and will travel to Puerto Penasco, then Guaymas, and the tour will conclude in the port of embarkation.
Representatives of Holland America and Carnival Corporation recently visited the area of Sandy Beach, where they intend to locate the cruise ship terminal in Puerto Penasco.
An assessment on the technical feasibility of building the wharf in this area of Rocky Point, Mexico was conducted with good results. Possible attractions in that area that could be provided to cruise ship customers were analyzed within the plans to set-up the Home Port. Some of these attractions are the Visitor Center of the ?El Pinacate? Biosphere Reserve which is another option that can be provided to nautical tourists.
Government sources said that the Home Port project in Puerto Penasco is looking for the appropriate conditions to remain as the Sea of Cortez cruise ship route, while at the same time duly caring for the environment and furthering a sustainable activity through ecological balance.
On October 16, the first tourist cruise ship owned by Holland America arrived in Guaymas, Sonora, while the second one arrived on November 15. in both cases, 1,200 tourists enjoyed the region's attractions.
A ?home port? is a port of arrival, or rather, the site where cruises begin and end. It is something Mexico had never had up to now. This benefit will also include Puerto Penasco once the construction of the Home Port is completed a few kilometers from the US border.
The Government of Sonora, the Florida and Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA), and the Coordination General of Ports and Merchant Marine, a body belonging to the Department of Communications and Transportation (SCT) entered into negotiations to make this project come true.
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This new office will take care and provide guidance to whoever intends to establish a company, so that it will not only receive paperwork, assured Francisco Diaz Brown, Secretary of Economy of the Government of Sonora.
The objective of this new center is to facilitate a business environment within the municipalities, development, and competitiveness of companies. Consulting services and training courses will be provided to put the necessary tools to develop businesses at the fingertips of entrepreneurs.
What is most important is that the window of the rapid attention of businesses system will be put into operation to process the formalities for establishing new businesses. The state official announced that the development offices's objective will be providing integral services to businesses. For such purpose, Diaz Brown, recently headed a regional meeting with Directors of Economic Development of the municipalities of San Luis Rio Colorado, Puerto Penasco, General Plutarco Elias Calles, and Caborca.
Before the representatives of the region's municipalities he stated that presently there is confusion as regards the formalities which take place at the centers for the Rapid Establishment of Companies (CARE) and the offices of the Rapid Attention of Businesses System (SARE). SARE and CARE are programs created by the Federal Government to facilitate to the maxium degree possible, mercantile, business and business management activities; the former commits the competent governmental authority to issue the registration document that enables to exercise trade formally in a very brief period of time, whereas the latter, CARE, was created to simplify processes and formalities for establishing micro, small and medium companies, joining the Federal, state and local governments for the purpose of providing to the business community, an integral service for the establishment of different types of commercial, industrial or service companies.
All of this will be concentrated in the Business Development Centers and the one in Puerto Penasco (Rocky Point) will be particularly important due to its constant flow of domestic and foreign investments. An office with these futures already operates in Hermosillo , the capital, and now the State Government is requesting the participation of the majors to start operating such offices in all of the aforementioned municipalities.
During the regional meeting, which was attended by Heriberto Renteria Sanchez, major of Puerto Penasco, the Secretary of Economy explained in detail the Liaison, Promotion, Support to Entrepreneurs, Training and Consulting Services, Financing, and Financial Support programs that form part of said agency.
Diaz Brown invited the region's directors of economic development to request development opportunities for the establishment and growth of companies in their respective municipalities. In Puerto Penasco, it is increasingly easy and simple to obtain licenses and permits for business activities thanks to the complementary efforts of the local, state and federal governments.
Thus, Puerto Penasco is consolidating as one of the most attractive places for domestic and foreign investment, reason due to which business people of the United States and Canada have set their ayes on this Sonoran municipality that, without the shadow of a doubt, is registering one of the highest development indexes of northern Mexico.
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