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Container traffic at Mexico's ports grew 16.8 percent in January year-over-year, according to the country’s transport and telecommunications ministry.
The national port system handled almost 440,000 TEUs in January, compared to some 376,000 in January 2014.
In 2014, Mexico’s container volume increased 4 percent to 5 million TEUs.
Mexican ports are posting tepid growth compared with ports in other Latin American countries, according to the regional UN agency Eclac. The agency cited Mexico’s lack of standardization methods, noting that logistics firms prefer using ports in other countries in the region because of the time it takes for containers in transit to be checked through
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Mexican ports.
Mexico’s largest container ports are Manzanillo, Lázaro Cárdenas and Veracruz, which collectively account for more than 80 percent of the TEUs shipped in Mexico. Containerized cargo volumes grew 11.8 percent at Manzanillo in 2014, but fell 5.2 percent at Lázaro Cárdenas and 2.3 percent at Veracruz.
U.S.-based port operator SSA Marine is building a container terminal at the port of Tuxpan in Veracruz state, and is planning a second facility. The one that’s currently in process — the port's first — will have a capacity of 900,000 TEUs per-year.
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