Container operation at commercial ports in Mexico has shown the highest activity in its history for a first four-month period in the year.
Statistics from the General Coordination of Ports and Merchant Marine (CGPMM) indicate that in the January-April period of this year, ports handled two million 952 thousand 195 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), which is 18.2% higher than the same period last year.
The data includes containers in deep-sea traffic (full and empty) and cabotage, although the latter only accounted for 14,880 TEUs, but it was 4,033.3% more than in the previous period.
On the Pacific side, almost all ports were protagonists of this increase. The largest of them, Manzanillo, reached one million 272 thousand 955 TEUs (+14.5%), while Lázaro Cárdenas port totaled 711 thousand 148 TEUs (+34.9%).
The third-largest deep-sea port on this coast, Ensenada, had a negative record by operating 134 thousand 075 TEUs or 4.1% less, according to the comparison periods.
In the Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean area, the port of Veracruz handled 424 thousand 949 TEUs (+20.9%), while Altamira port totaled 288 thousand 187 TEUs or 7.5% more.
Experts have commented that the country has received a greater number of goods through maritime routes due to the effect of production line relocation (nearshoring), as well as the effect of the “super peso” which allows for greater purchases abroad.
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