The ports of Altamira and Mazatlán have taken a greater participation in port maneuvers for the automotive industry in terms of finished vehicles for import and export.
Altamira registers an advance of 52.1% in the first five months of this year compared to the same period last year, with 209 thousand 265 units operated, mostly for shipments abroad (205 thousand 664 units), according to data from the General Coordination of Ports and Merchant Marine (CGPMM) , of the Secretary of the Navy (Semar) .
Taking into account that the ports on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico operated 581,593 vehicles in the reference period, Altamira had a participation of 35.9%, while last year it was 26.6 percent.
Meanwhile, the port of Mazatlán has operated 78,249 units in the period January-May 2024, an annual growth of 73.1 percent.
Contrary to Altamira, most of the vehicles that Mazatlán operated were in import services, with 75,826 units .
The units that were maneuvered in Mazatlán in the first five months of the year give it a share of 22.9% with respect to the total registered by the Mexican Pacific ports, while last year it was barely 12.9 percent.
Both ports have served as an outlet for other ports that are traditionally used by shipping and automotive lines for the embarkation or disembarkation of new units, such as Veracruz or Lázaro Cárdenas, and which have even recorded negative numbers.
The first of them, Veracruz, added 330,343 vehicles in the reference period, an annual decline of 11.7 percent. The second, Lázaro Cárdenas, registered 261,742 units or 13.3% less.
In total, Mexican ports have added 922,623 units from January to May 2024 , with an annual increase of 6.9 percent.
According to statistics from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) , of the 585,721 new units that have been marketed in Mexico in the first five months of this year, 66.4% of them have been imported into the country ; a similar proportion was observed in sales for all of 2023.
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