Borderlands: Border trucking capacity remains tight; Schneider Electric expanding in Tijuana

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Border trucking capacity remains tight; Schneider Electric expanding in Tijuana; new highway in Mexico to boost cross-border trade; Ceva Logistics expands in Latin America.

Border trucking capacity remains tight

The imbalance between northbound and southbound trucks across the United States-Mexico border is causing one of the toughest capacity shortages in decades. 

Officials at Redwood Mexico said they continue to see a crunch in northbound capacity because of the imbalance in Mexico’s northbound and southbound volumes. Redwood Mexico is a division of Chicago-based Redwood Logistics.

“It's been 20 years since I think we've seen this level of severity of an imbalance this severe past what would be a traditional peak season, May to early July,” said Troy Ryley, president of Redwood Mexico. “The only things I think that have affected capacity more were the China tariffs and the devaluation of the Mexican peso that happened back in the early 1990s.”