Bad timing for new capacity
NewsIn Mexico additional container capacity is coming on stream just as the market is experiencing a step slowdown in container traffic growth, ...
Mexico ports move ahead
NewsBox ports in Mexico have posted five years of relatively strong growth, fuelled by rising gateway volumes and US transit shipments....
Mexico’s port mission
NewsIn fiscal year 2015 alone, Mexico’s federal government will spend an estimated US$138M on the country’s ports. By 2018, it is hoped that...
Mexico mired in machinations
NewsLike the country itself, Mexico’s freight transport sector is at a tipping point, with golden opportunities available but widespread corru...
ZPMC bags Lázaro Cárdenas deal
NewsZPMC has won a US$120M contract to supply STS cranes, ASCs and other RMGs to APM Terminals Lázaro Cárdenas SA...
TEC2 groundbreaking at Lázaro Cárdenas
NewsThe first stone has been laid at APM Terminals' new concession in the Mexican port...
Yucatan posts new record
NewsYucatán Container Terminal in Mexico's Port of Progreso has posted a new container handling record...
Mexico first for APM Terminals
NewsThe port authority of Lázaro Cárdenas has announced APM Terminals as the winner of its second container terminal concession...
Punta Colonet: tomorrow or mañana?
NewsDoubts remain about the viability and rationale of a megapuerto at Colonet Bay, but meanwhile progress is being made at existing Mexican por...
Colonet tender issued
NewsAfter years of political infighting, conflicts over land use, legal disputes, etc, a tender has finally been issued in respect of the constr...
Cascading to the second tier of ports
NewsContainerisation is developing in smaller Mexican ports and intermodal distribution has received a new boost....
Hutchison and KCS raise Lázaro
NewsIn the past few years Mexico’s national programme for privatising port operations has produced substantial new investment in port faciliti...
A case of “mañana” in Mexico?
NewsAlthough progress is being made on several fronts, Mexico’s ports are still some way off becoming marine gates for Asian cargoes moving to...
Mexico as USA’s southern gate
NewsFor some time Mexico’s Pacific ports have been viewed as an alternative to the congested Los Angeles/ Long Beach cluster for access to the...
Rebuilding ports after Katrina
NewsWithin a one month span, hurricanes Katrina and Rita have impacted over 20 ports in the Gulf of Mexico that are members of AAPA and many oth...