article thumbnail

Is Mexico the World's Next Manufacturing Hub?

Elementum

s recovering economy and sync between industry verticals. A sync between verticals such as automotive, computer hardware, and transportation equipment provides opportunities to integrate the supply chain , which in turn can position the nation for further growth. The Mexican nation should also watch for two things : the U.S.’s

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics: Borderlands: Truck Capacity Tight Near Mexican Border

Freight Plus

The United States - Mexico Cross border trucking and trade is a huge industry in which freight volumes are on the rise. . The increase of freight volumes creates a large capacity crunch - there are not enough drivers to transport all the freight. Long haul freight volumes are rising especially in Texas to Mexico area.

El Paso 52
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics: Borderlands: Truck Capacity Tight Near Mexican Border

Freight Plus

The United States - Mexico Cross border trucking and trade is a huge industry in which freight volumes are on the rise. . The increase of freight volumes creates a large capacity crunch - there are not enough drivers to transport all the freight. Long haul freight volumes are rising especially in Texas to Mexico area.

El Paso 52
article thumbnail

Driver Shortage in Trucking: Time for Plan B

Talking Logistics

Maki said, is that June’s hiring was broad-based, as industries as varied as health care, manufacturing, financial services and retailing all added workers. But despite the overall good news for the job market, there’s one industry that’s still struggling to fill job vacancies: trucking. What is the Future of Truckload Transportation?

El Paso 186
article thumbnail

3 Important Freight Shipping Issues You Need to Know

Freight Center

The American Trucking Research Institute (ATRI) recently published its annual Critical Issues in the Trucking Industry for 2019. Of those four, we’ve dedicated one article to an in-depth discussion of Transportation Infrastructure, Congestion and Funding. It can be hard to keep up with all the freight industry news.

El Paso 48
article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

At the beginning of the year, the global chip shortage had become so dire that large industrial companies were taking scarce chips out of washing machines to plug them into industrial modules. and BNSF Railway have issued more embargoes—restrictions placed on the amount of cargo that can be transported—than in previous years.

article thumbnail

Guest Post: Texas Now the Number 1 State for Refrigerated Freight Volume

CH Robinson Transportfolio

First, agricultural markets in the Longhorn State are growing more fruit and vegetables, especially in the Rio Grande Valley, and the cattle and meat packing industries in the western part of the state add to that demand for refrigerated equipment. There are three reasons for the shift. Department of Agriculture.

El Paso 34