“Mexico has a cargo imbalance in some markets; it exports more than it imports from the United States, and that impacts us with cross-border tariffs . Depending on the routes, we need to know if we’re going to be cheap, if we’re going to help with empty return flights, or where we’re going to jump in line if it’s oversold,” said Luis Felipe González, Vice President of Customer Solutions for EASO and Hub Group .

During his participation in Container Week , organized by the Mexican Association of Intermodal Transport (AMTI) , he added that the reduction in capacity of B1 operators, the insecurity in some corridors in Mexico, among other factors, also impact intermodal transport.

Regarding the high level of capacity for land transport in the United States, he explained that this situation leads to low intermodal rates , while “the rhetoric of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, changes every day and affects us.”

At the event, he indicated that the shortage of road transport for certain markets, such as in the port of Lázaro Cárdenas, gave rise to a phenomenon in the arrival of automobiles of Chinese origin, since they were moved through containers .

He also pointed out that fuel and other ancillary costs are included in the fares for this mode of transport. However, he mentioned that compared to trucking, they offer stable annual fares, more consistent transit times, and more cost-effective door-to-door service.

He reported that, according to AMTI data, for the first half of this year, cross-border intermodal grew 17%, while domestic intermodal grew 7%, and maritime intermodal registered a drop of 8%.

“Domestic freight has grown strongly in recent years. It slowed down in 2021, but in 2022, 2023, and 2024, while the total volume of cargo may still be low, it remains one of the fastest-growing segments in terms of percentage. We’ve struggled quite a bit to recover volumes in cross-border freight due to the dynamics of the relationship with the United States. As for maritime intermodal freight, the pandemic and the Long Beach port closure had a positive effect, causing many cargo flows from China to North America to shift to Lázaro Cárdenas and Manzanillo,” he emphasized.

Luis Felipe González predicts a good end to the year for this mode of transport .

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True to its innovative tradition of seeking better logistics alternatives for its clients, Transportes EASO surprises the market once again by creating the “overweight corridor” , a logistics service model between Mexico and the United States that takes advantage of intermodal transport to make four shipments with three shipments through its logistics center in Dallas, Texas.

The service design, which has already allowed exporting companies to save up to 25% on their logistics costs , consists of loading 53-foot intermodal containers with merchandise weighing up to 26 tons of product that is transported on intermodal trains to its cargo hub located in the same Alliance intermodal terminal in the Texan city.

Once at their facilities, containers are deconsolidated and goods are rerouted in official weights of 20 tons, which is the maximum weight allowed in the United States. Whether you continue your journey via road or intermodal service to your final destination or by parcel service if you are dealing with multiple destinations, all services are offered at Alliance.

Dallas, Texas, is the ideal city to carry out this concentrated logistics. It has the infrastructure and, being an important consumer center and not very industrial, it demands a lot of inbound transportation services and generates a lot of multi-destination services by land, rail and air, which EASO is capitalizing on in favor of its clients to reach any region in the United States at competitive prices.

In addition, customers who need storage and later retail distribution can also have it with the range of options offered by the service designed by EASO, which has the flexibility that customers require, said the company’s commercial director, Diego Anchustegui.

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