Mexico shootout slows Texas border truck traffic
A confrontation between gunmen and Mexican authorities wounded three and backed up commercial truck traffic for hours.
A confrontation between gunmen and Mexican authorities wounded three and backed up commercial truck traffic for hours.
Manufacturing is increasing in Mexico as nearshoring has caught the attention of many U.S. companies.
“It’s a true domestic and international cargo insurance product that brokers and carriers are now utilizing to win the highest-margin freight and strengthen ties with their current client base,” Mark Vickers said on shipper’s interest insurance.
The USMCA has brought about new opportunities for cross-border trade. Is your organization taking advantage of these changes?
The land borders between the United States, Canada and Mexico will remain closed to nonessential travelers for at least another 30 days.
Mexico Remains Top US Trade Partner, Canada No. 2
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador put the army in charge of customs at border crossings and seaports across the country last year.
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Driver shortage affecting cross-border trucking; auto parts maker opens plant in Mexico; Laredo International Airport partners with UPS; and UPS hiring 450 in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Rural areas are the next e-commerce frontier; Texas FedEx distribution center acquired; Authentic Logistics opens Phoenix office; and CBP seizes counterfeit N95 masks in Houston.
Trucking industry professionals said the misuse of B-1 visa drivers creates an unjust but significant savings to U.S. carriers that set up outsourced B-1 driver fleets at a lower cost.
Mexico is again the top trading partner of the United States for February, followed by Canada and China.
The methamphetamine was shipped by truck in two loads through Texas to South Florida, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in Laredo and Pharr, Texas, discovered almost 800 pounds of methamphetamine in two recent shipments arriving from Mexico. The first case happened March 25 at Laredo’s World Trade Bridge. Agents found 367 pounds of alleged methamphetamine in a shipment of industrial magnets. The narcotics had a street value […]
Trucking companies in the United States and Mexico are violating cabotage rules by misusing Mexican B-1 visa drivers, allege stakeholders in Texas and Mexico.
A customs broker can help navigate cross-border freight. But companies should know what to look for in a customs brokerage.
More than 178,000 individuals apprehended at the United States-Mexico border in January and February
A global semiconductor chip shortage continues to affect auo factories on both sides of the United States-Mexico border.
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Laredo’s bridge master plan aims to boost Mexico trade; German automaker invests $72 million in San Luis Potosí; Transmontes orders 75 Freightliner trucks; El Paso opens route for trucks headed to Mexico.
Authorities are investigating whether human smuggling was involved in a crash Tuesday near Holtville, California, that killed more than a dozen people.
A collision near Holtville, California, about 15 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, killed at least 13 people.