Mexico’s major seaports handled a record 2.9 million twenty-foot equivalent units during the first four months of the year.
Ports across Mexico moved 728,116 twenty-foot equivalent units during January, a 20% year-over-year increase.
This week in Borderlands: Cargobot sees big opportunities with global cross-border trade; Lineage Logistics expands cold chain footprint in Texas; Stitch Fix closes Dallas logistics hub, lays off 558 workers; and Mexican seaport blocked as truckers protest wait times.
This week in Borderlands: Mexico recorded 237 cargo thefts the first two months of 2023; Port of Lazaro Cardenas will receive a $322 million investment; Penske Logistics is laying off 152 workers in Fort Worth; and a Texas contract manufacturer expands its logistics facility and trucking fleet.
Canadian Pacific is launching an international intermodal service between Mexico and Chicago, while state DOTs and Amtrak say a $31 million federal grant will add to existing passenger rail service and improve freight efficiency.
The ocean carrier has not said when customers can expect to receive damaged or intact cargo.
The Maersk Eindhoven, which lost 260 containers overboard, is slated to berth for repairs in Japan on Thursday.
The discharging of damaged containers continues nearly two months after the storm-battered ONE Apus arrived in Japan.
FreightWaves identifies importers who use the Asia-West Coast service.
A rail blockade in west-central Mexico has ended, freeing key rail lines connecting to the Mexican seaport of Lázaro Cárdenas on the Pacific coast.
Protestors blocking ports and rail ramps in the Mexican state of Michoacán are disrupting Kansas City Southern de Mexico’s operations and damaging Mexico’s economy.
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Record-breaking Mexican blockade costs $81M; A&R Logistics expands in Houston; Mexican export bank seals $600M loan; and TA Services acquires Top Gun Freight.
Ford Mexico CEO says ongoing Mexican rail blockades are affecting the flow of goods across the country.
Railway blockades reportedly are costing the Mexican economy more than $18 million a day.
A tip led investigators to the 90 bricks of cocaine weighing nearly 226 pounds.
