Customs and Border Protection

Noi Mahoney Sunday, September 19, 2021

Borderlands: Mundi launches finance tool for Mexico-based freight forwarders

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mundi launches a finance tool aimed at Mexico-based freight forwarders; more manufacturing jobs are headed for Mexico; Dachser Mexico is providing cross-border services for a tuna shipper; and CBP releases a cross-border trade operational update.

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Noi Mahoney Sunday, May 17, 2020

Borderlands: Cross-border trade key to growth; US-Mexico border truck crossings down 8% through April

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Cross-border trade is key for economic growth; US-Mexico truck crossings declined 8% through April 2020; transportation software firm moving to Texas; and Laredo CBP finds $11 million worth of meth inside shipment of flooring.

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Noi Mahoney Sunday, March 8, 2020

Borderlands: Cross-border trucking officials discuss freight markets; Mexico’s auto industry attracts $3.9 billion in foreign investment

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mexican trucking officials discuss cross-border goals; CBP finds $590,000 of meth in shipment of stone items; Mexican automotive industry’s 2019 foreign investment: $3.9 billion; Helion targets car and heavy-duty truck dealers around Dallas.

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Noi Mahoney Sunday, February 2, 2020

Borderlands: CFI Logistica expands Mexico operations; drug trafficker who used trucks convicted

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: CFI Logistica expands cross-border operations; Laredo mayor Saenz hails signing of USMCA; jury convicts trafficker using commercial trucks to smuggle drugs; Laredo CBP office gets new director of field operations.  CFI Logistica expands cross-border operations with […]

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Noi Mahoney Sunday, November 24, 2019

Borderlands: CBP seizes $8.4 million in marijuana in Otay Mesa; Texas gets new border commercial truck crossing

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: CBP seizes $8.4 million in marijuana bust; Texas port opens its first US-Mexico commercial FAST lane; Diligent Delivery Systems consolidates transportation-logistics operations; Unimacts acquires Tijuana manufacturing plant. CBP seizes $8.4 million of marijuana smuggled in cargo […]

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Noi Mahoney Sunday, September 22, 2019

Borderlands: San Antonio scores $1 billion in new projects; U.S. cuts deal averting 25% tariff on Mexican tomatoes

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: San Antonio secures $1.2B deal with manufacturers; United States ends Mexican tomato investigation; Otay Mesa adds industrial park along US-Mexico border; CBP seizes $1M worth of drugs at the Pharr International Bridge. Proximity to Mexico helps San […]

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Noi Mahoney Sunday, September 8, 2019

Borderlands: US-Mexico migration deal expires, Officials intercept rare bug in corn shipment from Mexico

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: U.S.-Mexico migration deal expires on Sept. 6;  Columbus, NM, gets new improved port of entry; rare invasive beetle species found in shipment of corn; and Marco Grajeda named director of New Mexico Border Authority. Mexican officials […]

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