Webinar: June 27th Mexico's Infrastructure Opportunities

U. S. Commercial Service Brings you:

Event: Mexico’s Infrastructure Opportunities 2013-2018
Venue: Your Computer
Dates: June 27, 2013
Time: 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Cost: $40 per company
Learn more: http://export.gov/mexico/tradeevents/eg_mx_058422.asp
Register: https://emenuapps.ita.doc.gov/ePublic/newWebinarRegistration.jsp?SmartCode=3Q63

If you are a U.S. company offering competitive infrastructure-related products and services…mark your calendar! The June 27 webinar is the first of a series of webinars to help U.S. companies gain insights into Mexican public infrastructure planning, learn about the public tender process and discuss best practices for prime contractors and sub-contractors with an experienced U.S. firm and key contacts of the U.S. Commercial Service Office in Mexico. Business opportunities abound in promising sectors such as oil, gas, electricity, and renewable energy; construction, engineering and transportation; new environmental technologies; and information and telecommunication technologies. For more information contact: adrian.orta@trade.gov. Invited Guests: Dorothy Lutter, Minister Counselor for Commercial Affairs, U.S. Commercial Service; Adolfo Luviano, International Affairs Vice Director, Mexican Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT); Carlo F. Orsenigo, Country Manager, CH2M HILL. Host: Diego Gatessco Senior Trade Specialist & Trade Americas Team Leader, U.S. Department of Commerce

Texas makes Port of Brownsville overweight corridor program permanent
May 21, 2009 Breakbulk News

Texas Governor Rick Perry has signed legislation that will permanently allow overweight freight to be transported by truck between the Port of Brownsville and Mexico. The corridor allows trucks carrying primarily break bulk steel but also other cargoes to be loaded to Mexican truck weights. Without the corridor, said the port’s Deputy Director Donna Eymard, shippers would have to use two trucks instead of one and the steel Brownsville handles would move to Mexican ports.

Brownsville is one of the U.S.’s largest steel ports, handling more than 2 million tons during 2008. Virtually all of the port’s import steel goes to mills in northern Mexico to be processed. After processing, some of it is then re-exported.

Port Director and chief executive officer Eduardo A. Campirano said in the port’s statement that “this is great news for the state, the port, the county, the city, and the consumer. The overweight corridor program helps to insure the sustainable growth of the Port – the economic engine for the Rio Grande Valley and Northern Mexico.”

Trucking Headlines: NAFTA trade rose 4.1% in 2008
By eTrucker Staff

Surface transportation trade between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners, Canada and Mexico, was 4.1 percent higher in 2008 than in 2007, reaching $830 billion, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The 4.1 percent rate of growth was the smallest year-to-year growth rate since 2003.

BTS, a part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration, reported that surface transportation trade with Canada and Mexico grew 8.6 percent during the first six months of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007. It declined 0.3 percent in the final six months and 9.4 percent in the October-to-December period compared to 2007. Total North American surface transportation imports rose 2.7 percent in 2008 from 2007, and exports rose by 5.9 percent during the same period.

In 2008, 86 percent of U.S. merchandise trade by value with Canada and Mexico moved on land. Total North American surface transportation trade value in 2008 was up 47.5 percent compared to 2003, and up 83.7 percent compared to 1998.

U.S.-Canada surface transportation trade totaled $537 billion in 2008, up 5.1 percent compared to 2007. The value of imports carried by truck was 6.0 percent lower in 2008 than 2007, while the value of exports carried by truck was 2.4 percent higher. Michigan led all states in surface trade with Canada in 2008 with $67.0 billion.

U.S.-Mexico surface transportation trade totaled $293 billion in 2008, up 2.3 percent compared to 2007. The value of imports carried by truck was 2.1 percent lower in 2008 than 2007, while the value of exports carried by truck was 7.8 percent higher. Texas led all states in surface trade with Mexico in 2008 with $94.1 billion.The TransBorder Freight Dataset is a special extract of the official U.S. foreign trade statistics. The data are obtained by BTS from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Foreign Trade Division.