Regional News : Mexico

India, Brazil and Indonesia have topped the table of Transport Intelligence’s new Emerging Market Logistics Index, which the U.K.-based consultant released this week. The index ranks 38 countries from the developing world in terms of the attractiveness of their logistics markets to foreign investors. It measures the scale of opportunities through three indices: market size and growth attr...

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...