OHL Group participates in two informative meetings on Mexico

The OHL Group has participated in two informative breakfast meetings in Madrid, one held by Executive Forum España and the other by Expansión. These meetings focused on business relations between Spain and Mexico.

The forum organized by Executive Forum was attended by the Mexican Ambassador to Spain, Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña. OHL was represented in this meeting by its Corporate General Manager Luis García-Linares, whose intervention included an allusion to “the important ties uniting Spain and Mexico” and “the potential for business relationships between both countries”. Luis García-Linares also referred to the Group’s three decades of experience in Mexico, a country that has become the main source of EBITDA for the Group.

All four divisions constituting the OHL Group are currently operating in Mexico through prominent transport infrastructure projects and relevant interventions within the fields of industrial engineering and tourism.

Mexico and Spain: business opportunities

The OHL Group was also represented in the informative breakfast meeting entitled Mexico and Spain: business opportunities in bilateral trade relations, organized by Expansión. This morning rendezvous was attended by many key figures, including Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña, the Mexican Ambassador to Spain; Valentín Díaz Morodo, Chairman of the Hispano-Mexicano Business Council; and Andrés Pan de Soraluce, president of OHL Development.

During his presentation on the Experience of a large Spanish company in Mexico, Andrés Pan de Soraluce, in addition to reflecting on the activities of the OHL Group in Mexico, underscored the tourist development of Mayakoba, an outstanding world class complex that has become a global bellwether in the scope of sustainability and environmental protection.

Located 8 km from the El Carmen beach in the central coastal area of the Mexican Caribbean, this complex spans a surface of 649.3 ha of superb ecological value, along which three exclusive hotels reside, namely the Fairmont, Rosewood and Banyan Tree, in addition to the El Camaleón golf course, which has hosted the Mayakoba Golf Classic since 2007.

OHL Development included the recovery of a mangrove swamp when designing the tourist complex, consequently constructing a lagoon system containing 13 km of navigable artificial canals covering 25 ha. The recovery of this and other ecosystems has vaulted Mayakoba into a natural habitat of almost 200 species of birds, fish, reptiles, crustaceans and shellfish compared with the 70 species initially there before the interventions.