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WORLD

TRADE BRIDGE

Logistics and Customs Platform

Since its opening on April 15, 2000 to December 2018, there Mexico has 19 ports on the northern border, among which
have been over 40 million crossings of import and export. Nuevo Laredo ranks first with 40% of commercial trade
between Mexico and the United States.
Currently they cross among 6,400 and 6,800 export and 6,700
to 7,100 import daily by the Nuevo Laredo World Trade Bridge, Tamaulipas contributes around 20% of the collection for VAT in
equivalent to a total average of 12 thousand 930 crossings a foreign trade operations throughout the country.
day. The average capacity utilization is 60%

With the trend of crossings that has had since the opening of Regarding the results of the year 2019 in the annual accumulated
this commercial port in April 2000, is estimated a 5.5%annual capacity, more than 1,948,208 crosses were obtained, which
growth over the next 10 years. The approximate figures would represents 1.92% more than in 2018.
be 8,060 import crossings and 7,790 export crossings, this
would give a total of 15,850 daily crossings in 2025.

Comparison of Export Traffic by the World Trade
200,000
Bridge 2018-2019
172,052 173,487
180,000 172,757 172,208 172,986
167,731 165,885 162,586 171,544
160,392 160,059 163,577 161,656 160,680 159,384 162,962
158,992
160,000 152,544 152,787 154,023
151,625
146,889 143,288
139,576
140,000
120,000

100,000

80,000

60,000

40,000

20,000

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Enero Febrero Marzo Abril Mayo Junio Julio Agosto Septiembre Octubre Noviembre Diciembre
2018 2019
46 | Institute for Competitiveness and Foreign Trade of Nuevo Laredo Source: World Trade Bridge