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PEDRO PABLO ZEPEDA BERMUDEZ
More than 35 years experience in the positions of the direction of government and financial sector institutions and as a private consultant in the areas of strategic planning and project management. Took part in the definition of the New Organization Model of the National Port System and was President of the Board of the 16 Integral Port Administrations (Federal) in Mexico. He acted as Secretary of the Board of Banca Cremi and Banco Internacional and as General Adjunct Director of Administration of those banks. He was a member of the federal house of representatives in the LI Legislature of the National Congress, representing the Second Electoral District of Chiapas.
From 1996 to 2001, he coordinated the Process for the Reform of the National Port System and the invitation of private capital to operate terminals and services.
ppzepeda@asiip.mx

HUGO CRUZ VALDÉS
Specialist in transport law, with an emphasis in ports and marine transport. His professional experience has been in the public sector and as a legal consultant of port companies. • From 1964 to 1970 he was Chief of the Law Department of the General Direction of Railroads in Operation in the Ministry of Communications and Transportation. • From 1970 to 1976 was the Private Secretary of the Secretary of the Navy. • From 1976 to 1988 was the General Director of Legal Matters in the Ministry of Communications and Transportation. • From 1988 to 1993 was Legal and Corporate Chairperson of the Decentralized Body of Mexican Ports. • From 1994 to 2003 he was General Director of Ports in the Ministry of Communications and Transportation. • From 2003 to 2014 was an independent Legal Consultant. • From 2014 to 2020 was General Director of Legal Analysis of the General Coordination of Ports and Merchant Marine. • From 2020 to date is an independent Legal Consultant. • In his professional experience, he has developed projects for laws and regulations, advised in the getting of concessions and contracts of partial cession of rights, promoted administrative resources and requests for defense, when needed. • He has given lectures on subjects within his specialty and has represented Mexico in international meetings regarding ports.
From 1996 to 2001, he coordinated the Process for the Reform of the National Port System and the invitation of private capital to operate terminals and services.
hcruz@asiip.mx

CELSO MORALES MUÑOZ
CONSULTANT AND COORDINATOR OF PORT PROJECTS
Construction of the infrastructure for the terminal of regasification of the CFE, in the Cuyutlán lagoon, Manzanillo, Colima. General Coordination of Ports and Merchant Marine, SCT from 2008-2012. Construction of the breakwaters east and west, dredging of the navigation channel with a width of 250 m and turning basin with a depth of 15.0 m, with a volume of 17.2 million cubic meters, protection of the slopes of the channel with an extension of 2.5 km. Federal investment of approximately 4300 million pesos. Extension of the Progreso, Yucatán port. General Coordination of Ports and Merchant Marine for the period 1996 to 2000. It involved doubling to 4 lanes the viaduct in 4.0 km, extending the breakwater, terrain won from the sea in 40 hectares with material from the dredging, construction of the piers for containers, ferry and cruise ships, dredging of the navigation channel in an extension of 8.0 km with 150 m wide and a turning basin of 11.0 m in depth; dredging 4.5 million cubic meters. Federal investment of approximately 2000 million pesos. Planning and sizing of the petrochemical port in Dos Bocas, Tabasco, for PEMEX 1979-1984. Position: Coordinator of the Port Marine Area, Proyectos Marinos S.C. Planning, sizing, projecting, and constructing a port with petrochemical oil vocation, to attend to the demand of hydrocarbon and petrochemical exports, by virtue of the oil reserves in the marine platform of the Gulf of Mexico, in the 70s. The project was undertaken to allow access to oil vessels with a capacity of 250 000 TPM and petrochemicals of 65 000 cubic meters, with a draft of 18.0 m to 22.0 m. The planning resulted in two breakwaters, the eastern with 3170 meters in length, and a second western breakwater with 1212 m. Sizing and projecting the navigation and maneuver areas, resulting in a navigation channel of 25.0 meters in depth and a turning basin of 700 in diameter. Three piers, two for oil and one for petrochemical on the side of the eastern breakwater

cmorales@asiip.mx

ARTURO PEREZ CASTRO
1971–1975.- Planner and Shop Foreman in the offices of: Arch. Manuel Macías del Valle; Arch. Sergio Mejía Ontiveros; Eng. Héctor Sánchez and Constructora Génova, S.A. 1975–1981.- Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources - Shop Foreman – Deputy Direction of Programs and Promotion - General Direction of Water Works and Agricultural Engineering for Rural Development - Main activities: Planning and assembly of the exhibits for promotion of works (storage dams, diversion dams, intake heading, filtering galleries, etc.). Deputy Head of the Department of Technical Support - Direction of Projects and Constructions - Main activities, studies, and work projects supporting the agricultural water infrastructure (centers for artificial bovine and porcine insemination, reproduction lab for sterile fruit flies, new population centers, urbanization, and urban services, workgroup for the development of the Public Works Law, etc.). 1981–1984.- Consulting company Ing. Miguel Montes de Oca y Asociados, S.A., as Coordinator of the Project Management and Construction - Main activities, Coordinator of works oversight in the tourism development of Fonatur in Loreto, Baja California Sur, of building, street urbanization, drinking water lines, sewers and drains, settlement of works in housing projects in Culhuacán and El Rosario, D.F. for INFONAVIT and for Minera Carbonífera Río Escondido in Mina II in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, of building and urban services. 1985–1989.-Ministry of Communications and Transportation - Head of the Department of Unit Prices - General Direction of Marine Works; Main activities: Bidding of the construction works in the Remote Terminal in Progreso, Yucatán, settlements, and attention of the audits in the constructions works of the opening of the ports in Altamira, Tamaulipas and San Pedrito, Manzanillo, Colima. 1989-1994.- Deputy Director of Bidding and Unit Prices - Construction Management - Chairperson of Marine Works - Decentralized Body of Mexican Ports and Consultant in the Liquidator Group of Mexican Ports,- Main activities, bids and administration of expansion and modernization works in the ports of Altamira, Tampico; Manzanillo, Colima; Tuxpan y Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz; Ensenada, Baja California; Guaymas, Sonora; Mazatlán y Topolobampo, Sinaloa; Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco; Acapulco, Guerrero; y Lázaro Cárdenas, Michocán. 1998-2014.- Deputy Director of Construction Control and Oversight of the Works in the Direction of Marine Works and Dredging of the General Direction of Ports - Main activities, construction of marine works and dredging of the port of Cuyutlán, Manzanillo, Col. (work resident) 2015-2019.-Director of Marine Works and Dredging - Main activities, expansion and modernization of Puerto Madero, Chiapas, Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Isla el Carmen and Seybaplaya, Campeche, completion of the multiple-use pier in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca. 2019 to January 2021. - Assistant General Director of Operation - Main activities: propose projects of marine, port, and dredging infrastructure in ports that are not under concession, coordinate the management of the budget resources and carry on the hiring of its execution, and also coordinate the approval of private projects that help and promote investment for development. February 2021 to date. - Independent professional in the area of contracts management, mainly of public works.
aperez@asiip.mx