Last March, there was a 3.1% increase in thefts reported across the Mexican Railway System (SFM) compared to the same period last year, the Railway Transport Regulatory Agency (ARTF) reported , with corn, batteries, and accessories being the most frequently stolen items.

According to the report Pulse of the Mexican Railway System-Security March 2025, the agency detailed that in the third month of the year 388 cases occurred compared to 376 in the same period of 2024 .

He indicated that corn, within the grains, seeds, and their derivatives subgroup, accounted for 55.22% of the total; batteries, which are part of consumer goods, represented 36.36%; and accessories, included in industrial products, 63.77%.

In this regard, the merchandise subgroups reported the following incidents:

1. Other industrial products with 18.35 percent.
2. Grains, seeds and their derivatives with 17.82 percent.
3. Consumer goods with 14.63 percent.

“These three subgroups together represent 50.80% of the total number of theft incident reports,” the agency emphasized in the document.

According to the ARTF, the states with the highest number of railroad robbery reports during that period were:

• Coahuila with 92.
• Guanajuato with 50.
• Aguascalientes with 52.
• Jalisco with 25.

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Last April, the theft of merchandise on the railway suffered an increase of 160% compared to the same month last year , with corn, wheat, accessories, controls and tires being the items that were stolen the most.

The Rail Transport Regulatory Agency (ARTF) reported that the increase in this type of incidents was derived from the 446 reports that were registered in that month, against the 171 in the same period but in 2023.

According to the document Pulse of the Mexican Railway System – Security, April 2024, of the total theft events, 57 resulted in complaints filed with the competent authority.

The merchandise subgroups with the highest number of incident reports were grains, seeds and their derivatives, as well as other industrial products with 20.8% each, followed by auto parts with 14.4 percent. These three subgroups together represent 56.2% of the total reports.

It is worth mentioning that the products with the highest incidence of theft were corn and wheat , followed by unspecified accessories and controls and tires .

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