b'S T E E L : S T R E N G T H T H R O U G H I N T E G R I T Y A N D V I S I O NConnecting Mexico by TrainSC Mexico Wins Bid to Supply Rail for Major Yucatn Transportation ProjectTains dont just connect locations; they connect lives. The route ofra train can help determine the future of businesses, neighborhoodsand towns, just by where the train travels through and where it stops. More practically, a railway network can have positive, progressiveeffects on a regions economy through efficient passenger transportationand cargo service, as well as generating jobs in its own sector andancillary businesses.Delivering aportion of the nearly 60,000 tons of rail fortwo separate sections ofthe seven-section rail system known asTren MayaSumitomo Corporation de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (SCMX), in cooperation with SCOA and MEXICO Sumitomo Canada Limited (SCL), was awarded the contract to supply nearly 60,000 tons of rail for two separate sections of the seven-section rail system known as Tren Maya, a new 948-mile in-tercity railway under construction in Mexico that looks to be an economic game-changer for this City region. SCMX has already scheduled product delivery for each section, with 2,626 tons of rail having arrived in Puerto Progreso on September 25.And, in October, the rails for Tren MayasAiming to connect tourist destinations in the Yucatn, Section 5 were transferred by land to site in Tu- including historic Mayan sites from which it derives its lum using transportation coordinated by SCMX. name, the $7 billion transportation project serves as the Traversing the Yucatn Peninsula via two routeslargest infrastructure development in decades and the that encircle the peninsula and divided intoflagship project of the currentseven different sections, the new train line willMexican government. With main objectives of increas-pass through 29 stations in the five principaling tourism and reinvigorating the economy of the re-south-east states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche,gion, the project will generate at least half a million jobs. Yucatan, and Quintana Roo.All participants are committed to completing the first section of the intercity railway project by 2023. 4 visions Fall 2021'