Mexico

PAM Transportation CEO Daniel H. Cushman told FreightWaves during an interview Tuesday that his company's trucking service to Mexico is "busting at the seams." "It is just a month into the year, but we are already 26% over where we were last year, so we are growing at a rapid pace," Cushman said...

Kansas City Southern (NYSE: KSU) is considering what legal options it has available to challenge a report by a federal agency in Mexico claiming a lack of rail market competition to haul chemical and petrochemical products in the state of Veracruz. Kansas City Southern (KCS) has seen an excerpt of...

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mexico considers law banning all double tractor-trailer trucks; Dynacraft finalizing relocation of plant to Texas; QSL opens new marine terminal on the Houston Ship...

The idea of digital freight brokerage has been around for quite a while now, with multiple startups and industry incumbents hard at work digitalizing transactions within the trucking market. However, the road freight industry is highly localized and throws up glaringly different challenges across...

Mexico's trade with the United States rose to $614.5 billion in 2019, up 0.5% above its total trade in 2018, according to U.S. Department of Commerce data released Wednesday. That was a record for the commercial exchange of goods between the countries, and Mexico ranked No. 1 among the U.S.'s...

Good day, Canada Post wants Canadian cannabis producers to stop sending shipments to a tiny island because U.S. border officers keep seizing them from its sealed trucks when they briefly enter Maine. Canada's federally owned postal carrier sent letters to the cannabis firms in late October in...

Dana Inc. recently announced it will use Transplace's transportation management system (TMS) to manage its North American supply chain. Maumee, Ohio-based Dana is a supplier of axles, drive shafts, sealing products, thermal-management technologies and universal joints for the light vehicle and...

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: CFI Logistica expands cross-border operations; Laredo mayor Saenz hails signing of USMCA; jury convicts trafficker using commercial trucks to smuggle drugs; Laredo CBP...

Celadon Group plans to sell its trucking terminal in Laredo, Texas, to P.A.M. Transportation Services for $19.8 million, according to a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The sale appears set to close imminently, after P.A.M. Transportation Services signed a purchase...

Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) opened its new $700 million Tacoma pickup assembly factory in central Mexico last month, aiming to use a combination of rail and short-sea shipping to export the pickups into the U.S. "Rail traffic will come through Laredo, but the majority of shipments into the U.S....

Good day, Waymo, the self-driving vehicle unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL), announced this morning that it is beginning testing of self-driving trucks on roads in Texas and New Mexico. The vehicles will drive alongside self-driving Chrysler Pacifica automobiles. "These are...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday he expects Parliament to ratify NAFTA's successor next week, the last step before the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement can take effect and ensure continued stable flows of cross-border freight. Trudeau's government will introduce legislation to...

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Toyota begins production at its new Tacoma plant in Mexico; fatal shooting reported at family-owned trucking company in San Antonio; new superintendent appointed for...

A wide range of officials on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border as well as trucking associations on Thursday praised the new trade deal among the United States, Mexico and Canada, after the U.S. Senate passed the deal, sending it to President Donald Trump for his signature. The United States-...

Texas-based EnVue Telematics recently announced it has expanded its operations into Mexico with the wholly owned subsidiary EnVueMex Solutions.  With offices in the cities of Aguascalientes and Monterrey, EnVueMex will offer advanced technology and data solutions for truck fleet managers around...