Last August, theft from rail transport increased by 277% compared to the same period in 2023, reported the Railway Transport Regulatory Agency (ARTF) .

According to the document Pulso del Sistema Ferroviario Mexicano , during this period 317 reports of robberies were registered , compared to 84 on an interannual basis.

The states with the highest total number of reports were Guanajuato with 82, Coahuila with 33 and Jalisco with 27.

“The border states in the north of the country, specifically Coahuila, Nuevo León and Sonora, have the highest concentration of reports in this region. This is attributed to the operational dynamics of international rail traffic, given that these entities are key points for the transit of goods between Mexico and the United States,” said the ARTF.

He specified that of the total number of reports, only 53 complaints have been filed with the competent authority, which may contain one or several cases of theft of products/cargo, fuel, rolling stock, signal and track components.

In this regard, during the month in question the most stolen products correspond to the subgroups of Grains, seeds and their derivatives, with 18.5% of incidents, those classified as Other industrial products 16.6% and Construction material 16 percent.

This means that corn was the most stolen product, followed by wheat, as well as unspecified accessories and controls, and cement.

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Rail freight transport in Mexico registered a total of 307 thefts during May 2024, an increase of 99.3% compared to the same month last year, with cement, quarry or earthenware for flooring or paving and auto parts being the merchandise with the most incidents in this period, according to the report of the Agencia Reguladora del Transporte Ferroviario (ARTF).

The ARTF mentioned that during the fifth month of the year, only 56 complaints were registered with the competent authority out of the total number of reports presented.

In general, in the total number of reports, the states of Guanajuato stand out with 52,  Coahuila with 44 and Aguascalientes with 35.

The merchandise subgroups with the highest number of reports of theft incidents during May 2024 were:

• Other industrial products (22.01% of theft incidents).
• Construction material (15.22% of theft incidents).
• Auto parts (14.4% of theft incidents).

These three groups together represent 51.63% of the total reports of theft incidence.

By May 2024, the products with the highest incidence of theft within the Other industrial products subgroup were unspecified accessories, which obtained 46.9% of the total, followed by unspecified controls with 35.8 percent.

In the case of the construction material subgroup , the product that was reported stolen most frequently was cement with 94.6% of the total, followed by quarry or tiles for flooring or paving with 5.3% of the total.

For its part, in the auto parts subgroup , the highest number of theft incidents were tires with 96.2% of the total.

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