The use of the Port of Ensenada for logistics activities
By Adina Moloman
Sources: SEDECO, San Diego Reader, www.puertoensenada.com.mx
The Port of Ensenada is an important commercial port on Mexico’s pacific coast, located near the border with the United States within 250 kilometers of three main border crossings and has important connections to a range of regional and international markets by sea, rail, and road.
The Commercial Port of Ensenada has access to important international trade routes, connecting it with 64 ports in 28 countries where most of its exports go to Asian and Central and South American countries with imports arriving primarily from Asia, Nicaragua, and New Zealand.
Currently this strategic Mexican port on the Pacific processes less than one million containers annually which is not minimal considering the increasing needs of the Mexico Maquiladora industry in the region. Transnational corporations have expressed their need for handling goods through the port of Ensenada in order to avoid the congested American ports, Los Angeles and Long Beach, which soon won’t have the capacity to deal with all of the shipping required for this growing Maquiladora Industry in Mexico.
Thus far, most of the multinational companies established in Baja California are using for their logistics activities Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, the busiest ports in the region, processesing over 12 million containers annually each one.
The Port of Ensenada expands its capacity to respond to the ever-increasing trade developing especially from countries in Asia.
At a recent meeting between the Governor of the State of Baja California, Jose Guadalupe Osuna Millan, and Nobuyori Kodaira, Executive Vice President of Toyota, which was held at the facilities of the Toyota Corporation in Tokyo, Governor Osuna announced that the use of the port of Ensenada for logistics activities is already a reality.
The Governor mentioned the ongoing rehabilitation of the Tijuana-Tecate rail network in order to connect to the rail system in the United States.
