“The scope of methamphetamine abuse in the U.S. is on the rise,” said Andrew Douglas, port director for the Laredo port of entry.
Hurricane Laura, eyeing U.S. landfall Wednesday night, is now forecast to produce a “life-threatening storm surge” along parts of the Gulf Coast.
Hurricane Laura is predicted to make landfall near Port Houston, part of the nation’s largest logistics hub for oil, gas and petrochemicals.
Laura is expected to make landfall late Wednesday night, hitting the Gulf Coast somewhere near the Texas-Louisiana border.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, two freight-related companies in Texas are eliminating 382 jobs.
More than $125 million in drugs has been seized from tractor-trailers attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas and California since July 15.
Imports of auto parts, passenger cars and commercial trucks into Texas ports declined 23% through the first six months of the year.
“The upsurge of methamphetamine trafficking has become a serious international health and security threat,” said Laredo Port Director Andrew Douglas.
The meth seizure occurred at the cargo facility of the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge in South Texas.
Three days after Hurricane Hanna hit southern Texas, the region remains flooded and roads closed.
Hurricane Hanna’s aftermath has temporarily halted freight movement on several routes in and out of Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.
Parts of Texas could get drenched with 4 to 8 inches of rain from a tropical storm expected to make landfall on Saturday.
Freight flow delays likely this weekend as Tropical Storm Hanna lands in eastern Texas. Gusty winds, flash flooding likely.
Border industry leaders discuss USMCA’s benefits during a panel discussion hosted by the El Paso, Texas-based Borderplex Alliance.
The U.S. Border Patrol aided the individual when the train arrived in San Diego, Texas.
Tesla receives 20-year incentives deal from Travis County, Texas, for possible Cybertruck factory.
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.
With a $46 million tax break from a Texas school district, Tesla is one step closer to building an electric vehicle manufacturing plant in Austin.
United Airlines said layoffs of more than 4,700 employees at airports in Houston and Dallas could be long term if economic conditions do not change.
Tesla has submitted an application in Austin, Texas, for $68 million in tax incentives to build a proposed 5 million-square-foot manufacturing plant.
