The hurricane damaged over 175 miles (282 km) of track and Genesee & Wyoming was not financially capable to repair the railroad.

[8] By 2013, The Secretary of Communications and Transportation announced it had given the new amended concession to Viabilis Holdings to continue operations of Ferrocarriles Chiapas-Mayab[7] for a period of 30–50 years.

[6] Employees who work for Ferrocarriles Chiapas-Mayab, as well as the SCT, have criticized management for the deterioration and lack of maintenance of railway infrastructure, citing the potential of petrochemical derailment and the loss of life.

[19] One of the shareholders in Ferrocarriles Chiapas Mayab, Pedro Topete Vargas, denounced the revocation of its concession as, "an act of revenge" from Secretary of Communications and Transportation Ruiz Esparza.

[8][21] In September 2014, The Secretary of Telecommunications and Transportation announced that the federal government was going to invest 6 billion pesos to rehabilitate the railway[22] in part to deter Central American Immigrants from hitch-hiking on the train,[23] as well as to increase rail cargo speed in the region.