A new logistical alternative for transporting food products between Mexico and the United States is beginning to take shape with the launch of America’s Harvest , a service driven by Genesee & Wyoming, Canadian National (CN) and Grupo México Transportes (GMXT) that seeks to connect smaller-scale producers and buyers through an integrated rail network.
This service focuses on products such as a wide variety of edible dried beans and other dried legumes that are not traditionally moved in large quantities, thus allowing small and medium-sized enterprises to access international markets with a more cost-efficient and time-efficient option.
Rossana Cárcamo, CN’s Sales and Marketing Director for the United States and Mexico, points out that this project represents the beginning of a strategy focused on developing specialized solutions for specific industries.
“We’re going industry by industry. Legumes are a very important market in the United States and Canada, and we see a medium- and long-term growth opportunity in trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada,” he says in an interview with T21.
It explains that the America’s Harvest service leverages the regional rail infrastructure operated by Genesee & Wyoming, which serves highly specialized production areas. Through these connections and CG Railway’s maritime-rail link, the companies aim to create logistics corridors that bring producers and buyers from the three countries closer together.
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