The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) of Mexico reports that a local cooperative requested a federal environmental permit to build a wooden dock in Chelem, Progreso, Yucatán.
On Friday, January 10, 2025, the Progreso-based company Melkart Melquisedec, a cooperative limited liability company, delivered the Environmental Impact Statement (MIA) carried out by Environmental Engineering and Digital Topography Services, to request federal authorization to build the dock within two years and operate it indefinitely.
On January 22, the project’s MIA was sent from the Semarnat branch in Yucatán to the office that must compile a file, evaluate the environmental impact, and issue its opinion.
The work, says the MIA, is to meet the growing demand for spaces for nautical tourism.
According to the Public Registry of Commerce of Yucatán (RPCY), Melkart Melquisedec was established as a cooperative on August 20, 2013, in Progreso with a capital of $50,000 contributed by five Mexican partners: the brothers Astar Sheram, Edzel Uriel, along with Luis René Alonzo Alvarado, Álvaro Guzmán Vargas and Juan Gabriel Ventura Segura.
The most recent act registered in the RPCY is from January 10, 2024, when five of the then-ten partners resigned and one joined. The six shareholders now are Astar Sheram, Edzel Uriel, Luis René Alonzo Alvarado, Juan Gabriel Ventura Segura, Margrit Alvarado Coto, and José Alonzo Alvarado, the new entrant, each with a capital of US$20,000.
If authorized, the Chelem dock will be built with an investment of about US$15 million, which will be its financing, according to the MIA.
In addition, this dock will be supplied by the municipal water network and the national electricity network, so the demand for both services would increase, which are now reasons for complaints from the population due to the frequent interruptions that affect homes, businesses, and fishing industries.
According to the MIA, Melkart Melquisedec wants to build a wooden dock on a concessioned property that is located within the sheltered port of Yucalpetén and on one side of Federal Highway 261 (Chelem Bridge). The then Comprehensive Port Administration (API), today the Administration of the National Port System (Asipona), which operates the remote terminal and shelter ports of Yucatán, gave him the concession of the federal land in 2018, seven years ago.
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