Bad timing for new capacity

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In 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

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Box ports in Mexico have posted five years of relatively strong growth, fuelled by rising gateway volumes and US transit shipments....

Mexico’s port mission

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In 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

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Like 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

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ZPMC has won a US$120M contract to supply STS cranes, ASCs and other RMGs to APM Terminals Lázaro Cárdenas SA...

Yucatan posts new record

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Yucatán Container Terminal in Mexico's Port of Progreso has posted a new container handling record...

Mexico first for APM Terminals

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The port authority of Lázaro Cárdenas has announced APM Terminals as the winner of its second container terminal concession...

Punta Colonet: tomorrow or mañana?

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Doubts 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

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After years of political infighting, conflicts over land use, legal disputes, etc, a tender has finally been issued in respect of the constr...

Hutchison and KCS raise Lázaro

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In 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?

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Although 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

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For 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

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Within 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...

Punta Colonent denials

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USWC terminal operator Marine Terminals Corp (MTC) has used the opportunity to rebut a newspaper article to ram home the message that port i...

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