Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge

Noi Mahoney Sunday, November 29, 2020

Borderlands: Arizona-Mexico border trade recovering slowly

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Arizona-Mexico border trade recovering slowly; Averitt Express expands in Laredo; Port of Brownsville FTZ ranks No. 2; and CBP nabs $3M in narcotics at Pharr International Bridge. Arizona-Mexico border trade recovering slowly Cross-border trade between Mexico […]

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Noi Mahoney Sunday, July 12, 2020

Borderlands: More than 1,400 Texas trucking/freight-related companies received PPP loans; $4.2 million in drugs seized at Pharr port of entry

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: 1,403 Texas trucking/freight-related companies received PPP loans; $4.2 million in drugs seized at Pharr port of entry; Visible SCM acquires TriCon; and Liftit raises $22.5 million in Series B funding.

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Noi Mahoney Sunday, October 6, 2019

Borderlands: Milwaukee Tool builds $86 million Mexican factory; husband and wife truckers killed in a crash near El Paso

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Milwaukee Tool builds $86 million factory in Torreón, Mexico; husband and wife truckers killed in a crash near El Paso; $1.6 million in cocaine found in carrot shipment; Texas college expands CDL program to attract more trucking students. […]

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Noi Mahoney Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge receives $30 million upgrade aimed at speeding up trade

The city of Pharr, Texas, will soon begin $30 million in infrastructure projects at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge along the United States-Mexico border. The projects are aimed at expediting border crossings for the transportation of oil and natural gas products, as well as perishable goods such as avocados from Mexico, said Luis Bazán, general director […]

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Noi Mahoney Thursday, July 11, 2019

Texas border bill aims to stop produce imports from wilting at international ports-of-entry

Texas Gov. Greg Abott recently signed a bill aiming to speed up the inspection process for trucks carrying fresh produce across ports-of-entries along the Texas-Mexico border.  Texas House Bill 2155, which goes into effect September 1, reauthorizes a 2015 program allowing the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) to award grants totaling $750,000 over the next […]

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Noi Mahoney Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Texas border ports-of-entry continue to confront spillover from international migration crisis

A week after several international border bridges between the United States and Mexico had to be closed because of the migration crisis, U.S. officials announced migrant border arrests fell 28 percent in June. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced July 9 that about 104,000 migrants were taken into custody entering the Southwest border […]

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Noi Mahoney Monday, June 24, 2019

Texas sends another 1,000 National Guard troops to Mexican border in response to migrant crisis

Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, announced June 21 that he would send another 1,000 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to aid the federal government with border security efforts. Abbott said the additional troops would serve a “short-term mission” assisting U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents at new migrant facilities in the […]

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