SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum this week updated ongoing work to rehabilitate a rail link between the Gulf and the Pacific Ocean through Southern Mexico.

It's called the Corredor Interoceánico del Istmo de Tehuantepec or Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in English.

It was originally built in 1907.

Sheinbaum says modernizing this rail line will provide a strategic option to the Panama Canal.

She also believes it would transform the area into a hub of development offering "a key link to the economies of Central America."

The idea is to upgrade the rail line to transport materials and products between Coatzacoalcos, in the Gulf to Salina Cruz, in the state of Oaxaca along the Pacific Ocean, reducing transportation time and costs to shi

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