The Mexican Intermodal Transport Association (AMTI) continues to make progress with the National Customs Agency of Mexico (ANAM) and the National Service for Health, Safety and Agri-Food Quality (Senasica) on Annex 29 and the inspection of cargo from the point of origin, respectively, which would contribute to increasing the use of intermodal transport.
Diego Anchustegui, president of the organization, mentioned that they will carry out tests through an application to comply with Annex 29, a document that is required for cross-border intermodal shipments .
“At AMTI, one of our goals is to facilitate the use of intermodal transport, and we managed to get ANAM to facilitate Annex 29 through an application. An email arrived in which you can download the application and start testing. They are starting to do tests and this will help us improve this tool,” he explained during the monthly AMTI meeting.
He indicated that this document is not requested when crossing roads , it is a procedure that is difficult for customers and complicates the use of this mode of transport.
Regarding Senasica , he specified that they are creating permits so that certain products can be inspected from the origin of the cargo.
“This is not related to intermodal, it does not help intermodal, it does not help an intermodal shipment to travel from origin, Chicago, to the final point in Mexico, so we are connecting with Senasica and we are developing projects so that inspection is done from origin,” he said.
Currently, any product must be inspected by this agency at the point of entry, that is, if something is being imported from the United States to Mexico, it must be inspected at the border.
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