Mexico to build port in Baja to serve U.S.

A new container port in Baja will indeed compete with Los Angeles and Long Beach where containers must be hauled by trucks between the port and rail yards. As the article mentioned, the expansion of Panama Canal locks along with new port facilities provides another efficient link between the Orient and the U.S. east coast. All of this is happening as the amount of trade with the Pacific Rim may be in decline due to rising wages in China and rising cost of fuel for ocean carriers. Manufacturing may be slowly moving back to Mexico and the U.S.

The article mentioned Prince Ruport. That would be Baja's largest competitor. Located 479 miles north of Vancouver, Prince Rupert is the nearest North American port to major Asian ports by 30 sailing hours.
Prince Rupert has the most direct rail line to Chicago with the gentlest grade of any rail line going through the Rocky Mountains.
Prince Rupert is 711 highway miles closer to Chicago than Los Angeles or Long Beach. Prince Rupert has the deepest natural harbor in North America.
When you consider the alternatives such as building a new port from scratch in Baja, Calif., and blasting railroad lines through the mountains to get to it, Prince Rupert makes sense. Nevertheless, the Mexicans should develope their infrastructure any way they can.

 

And thanks to the Unions and the US, they will. Even China is pitching in to help.

It's been an ongoing project for years. Nothing new in this story, except they have announced the start of bidding.

 

Hmmmm, will there be new port trucks running there or will they be the old port trucks from L.A. and Long Beach Harbors.

 

Uh...excuse me? Are you saying that Americans will now go into Mexico, and take their jobs?

Don't think so.... 20 cents a mile won't get off the ground for a company driver.

And our unions have no voice on that side of the border.

 

I wouldn't imply that you would do it. I'm implying that Mexico would make it very difficult, for a US based company/operator to get authorized. Even with NAFTA.

And if they did, the rates coming out would be sub par at best.

 

As I stated in another thread: I'll stay in my country and the Mexicans can stay in theirs.

I don't need Mexico to survive or make money in my business. They need us though and have yet to show any appreciation for what we as a country have done to help Mexicans.

In the past 40 or so years who has sacrificed more and accommodated more. It certainly isn't Mexico, nor its citizens.