Mexico has a good infrastructure in terms of intermodal terminals, since both Kansas City Southern de México and Ferromex, as well as private companies, have invested to have such facilities in the country; although there are corridors and some areas where there are opportunities to start this type of project, such as the south of Mexico City.

Data from the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT) show that in Mexico there are 73 facilities licensed as providers of the cargo terminal auxiliary service; regardless of the transfer and discharge of liquids. Of these, it is estimated that there are 18 inland terminals for intermodal rail service.

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According to Eduardo Asperó Zanella, Vice President for Mexico of the Hub Group, the aforementioned railways have good quality services, have invested in equipment such as chassis, have controlled box entry processes and have good coordination with Customs, among other factors.

These types of facilities are found in states such as Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Estado de México, Querétaro and Chihuahua; however, although it concentrates several terminals such as Pantaco, there are none south of Mexico City; and this area could result, he says, in an "interesting market in Tehuacán or further south, Coatzacoalcos."

“The terminals are of a good level, adequate, they have been evolving, schemes have been developed to provide chassis, which is essential for our business and I would say that the main lack is south of Mexico City. But we have the conditions for intermodal to grow”, says Asperó Zanella.

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He details that, by having this type of facility in the south of Mexico City, it would encourage conventional traffic from Oaxaca or Puebla to use them for long-range routes such as the United States or Canada.

However, Humberto Vargas, president of the Mexican Association of Intermodal Transport (AMTI), believes that building terminals will depend on how certain consumption centers and populations grow. for which they have insisted on the Monterrey-Mexico City and Monterrey-Guadalajara sections.

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