Vulcan Materials Company is embroiled in a high-level legal dispute with the Mexican government after it attempted to expropriate a quarry supplying building materials for the southern U.S.

Vulcan is the largest producer of construction materials in the United States. While most of its operations are domestic, the southern coastal regions of the U.S. lack a proper limestone quarry, and logistics make transportation of limestone from other parts of the country exceedingly difficult and expensive. In 1986, the company was given permission by the Mexican government to develop a quarry near Playa del Carmen in the Yucatan Peninsula. To ship the crushed limestone building materials extracted from the quarry, Vulcan developed the only deep-water port in the peninsula.

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