Regional News : Mexico

Many U.S. agriculture producers and manufacturers are losing significant export sales to Mexico because of tariffs that country imposed after Congress last year nixed a cross-border trucking program designed to fulfill free trade obligations, business groups said Tuesday. Representatives for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Potato Co...

Kenco Logistics Services, through its subsidiary Kal-Serv, has formed a joint venture with Schnellecke of America, called Team 3 Logistics, to provide logistics services to support automotive production in the U.S. Southeast. Schnellecke, based in Wolfsburg, Germany, is an established logistics services provider to automakers in Europe, China, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa. The ...

Kansas City Southern said Monday it has acquired Ports America's Puerta Mexico intermodal facility at Toluca, 40 miles west of Mexico City. The railroad said that later this month it will add direct train service from the port of Lazaro Cardenas to Puerta Mexico, providing Mexico City import and export shippers with a service alternative that it said would feature improved consistency and...

Harding The White House announced Monday that President Obama intends to nominate retired Army Major Gen. Robert A. Harding as administrator of the Transportation Security Administration. He is the second candidate for the job after Erroll Southers, a police chief with the Los Angeles World Airports, withdrew his name for consideration in January because of questions about how he handled a...

One year after Congress cut off funds for a cross border trucking program with Mexico the Obama administration has still not followed through on its promise to make modifications that would allow the initiative to resume and end a bilateral trade tiff. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, speaking to reporters following an address to state transportation leaders, would only say, “We’re tw...

Vanguard Logistics Services has started a new less-than-trailerload in-bond rail service to Mexico City for freight originating in the U.S. Midwest, Northeast and Pacific Northwest. Containers are moved in-bond across the U.S.-Mexico border and stripped and customs cleared at the Pantaco Rail Yard in Mexico City. The non-vessel-operating common carrier said the service “virtually eliminat...

French liner carrier CMA CGM said Friday it is raising rates on a host of trades from March 1 through April 1. The rates increases on March 1 are: • From northern Europe to the Far East, shipments of waste commodities (paper and plastic) will increase $200 per 40-foot container. • From India to European and Mediterranean ports, $250 per 20-foot container and $500 per 40-foot conta...