Later this month, Kansas City Southern de Mexico will add direct train service from Lazaro Cardenas to Puerta Mexico, providing Mexico City import and export shippers with a service alternative featuring improved consistency and reliability, and better transit times.
"Puerta Mexico is well-positioned on KCS' International Intermodal Corridor, making it a valuable enhancement for our cross border service offering," said David Starling, KCS president & chief operating officer.
KCS executive vice president of sales & marketing Patrick Ottensmeyer, added that the growth of manufacturing activity and international trade flows in the Mexico City area is increasing the demand for modern, multi-modal terminals in Mexico's industrial heartland.
With its connection to the KCS rail network, Puerta Mexico serves the industrial centres of Mexico and the US, several important seaports and the Toluca-Mexico City industrial corridor.
The facility provides intermodal rail and truck services, warehouse storage and has the only inland customs clearing facility in the State of Mexico.
In addition to train service, Puerta Mexico offers multi-modal terminal services and on-site customs and bonded warehousing facilities to ocean carriers, intermodal and other logistics service providers.
With an estimated capacity exceeding 150,000 containers and two million plus tons of cargo per year on more than 130 developed acres, the facility essentially doubles the intermodal capacity available to the greater Mexican central valley region and alleviates congestion in the region.
