To strengthen the supply chain and to address the impact of the relocation of production lines (nearshoring) , Bulkmatic de México will build a new terminal in Pesquería, Nuevo León , which is part of the more than 600 million dollars that the company has earmarked to invest in the next 10 years.
Camilo Gómez, the company’s commercial manager, said that the aim is for “the country to go in the right direction, on the right path,” hence the investment in infrastructure.
“It is an ambitious project. We want to manage what we already have, what we are strong at, but also expand our capacity to other products such as steel, paper, wood, which are commodities that we are not managing and that we see will grow exponentially with nearshoring,” he said.
The new intermodal terminal will be located on a 100-hectare site on the Cadereyta-Jimenez highway, kilometer 14, in Pesqueria, the area with the greatest industrial growth in the state. It will also be close to the airport and the KIA and Ternium plants .
Camilo Gómez said that this new infrastructure will be able to receive two unit trains of different commodities , although the focus will be on grains, and it will also store 1,300 railroad cars.
“Our largest terminal is in Tula, Hidalgo, with 380 cars, in Salinas Victoria with 230 cars, and one of the largest terminals in the Valley of Mexico has 600 or 700 cars and if I compare it with the main railway access which is in the Laredo part and which is owned by CPKC which has more than four thousand cars, which is the Patio de Sánchez, we are talking about double, the largest terminal in Mexico that has an intermodal terminal and 25% of the most important railway access in the country,” he explained.
Among other things, it will have silos for grains and minerals, tanks for petrochemicals, storage warehouses (hazardous chemicals, plastic resins), and about 23 hectares will be used for cars, steel, or other products.
Likewise, they will be connected by the CPKC de México and Ferromex tracks , “which provides competitiveness for all customers who handle their products.”
He mentioned that 10% of the 130 million tons exported by rail, that is, nearly three million tons, would be the growth that the company would be registering through new facilities.
“We are convinced that this will be a great opportunity and a major development hub for the northeastern part, which is a very important area for investments,” he said.
He said that they currently have 14 terminals nationwide , handling various products and raw materials in bulk, with an annual movement of about 45 thousand railroad cars, which translates into four million tons.
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