Giving Mexican carriers U.S. operating authority may not directly solve a chronic imbalance in loads and equipment that plagues cross-border shippers, driving up transport costs and causing congestion on the Mexican side of the border and at U.S. docks.
Those lines can be especially long during peak shipping periods, such as the produce season that typically starts in April and runs through July. Troy Ryley, managing director of logistics company Transplace de Mexico, is already worried about supply and demand.
“That’s the one thing that keeps us up right now,” he said Jan. 13. “What will capacity look like come April. We predict it could be pretty chaotic. (Northbound) volumes keep increasing, and capacity in the U.S. is still short. The last peak produce season was pretty horrific.”